I Suspect That Even Though The Various

The [moon] Surface Is Fine And Powdery. I Can Kick It Up Loosely With My Toe. It Does Adhere In Fine Layers Like Powdered Charcoal To The Sole And Sides Of My Boots. I Only Go In A Small Fraction Of An Inch, Maybe An Eighth Of An Inch, But I Can See The Footprints Of My Boots And The Treads In The Fine Sandy Particles.

No Matter When You Had Been To This Spot Before, A Thousand Years Ago Or A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Or If You Came Back To It A Million Years From Now, You Would See Some Different Things Each Time, But The Scene Would Be Generally The Same.

We Had Hundreds Of Thousands Of People All Dedicated To Doing The Perfect Job, And I Think They Did About As Well As Anyone Could Ever Have Expected.

Research Is Creating New Knowledge.

It Suddenly Struck Me That That Tiny Pea, Pretty And Blue, Was The Earth. I Put Up My Thumb And Shut One Eye, And My Thumb Blotted Out The Planet Earth. I Didn't Feel Like A Giant. I Felt Very, Very Small.