I felt odd about the whole thing too, Daylia. It was really quite peculiar to see a couple of guys go to the moon in a tin can, tramp around on it for a bit, messing it up, stick a dumb little flag in the ground and take pictures...yuck! I can understand your negative reaction. Kind of like a Walmart agent arriving in Katmandu or something, complete with a canned sound bite for the watching audience. ("That's one small step for a man, one giant fart for the cosmos.")

Still, I do understand the human desire to explore space. It would have been better for me if it had been a mission jointly sponsored by the whole world than by the USA specifically...but the USA had the money and resources to do it, so they did.

- LH