Thanks for this sensational set of videos and to hear once again the magnificent words of JFK. Those of us who are old enough remember that glorious day as if it were yesterday. These taped images sent chills up and down my spine, and I was again lifted up and felt the same sense of pride that I felt then in our ventures to the moon.

It's hard to believe that it was 50 years ago that Jack, a fellow engineer, old enough to be my father, took a liking to me and invited me over to the backyard of his California home for breakfast where he had set up his TV outside so we could watch it all happen. What a glorious time it was.

I wanted to be an astronaut. Followed Chris Kraft's advice, "To complete my education," all the way to a master's degree in human factors by 1968. But Apollo was already winding down and no one was hiring. Eight years later at the 20/20 conference in Huntsville, members of von Braun's team complained that we weren't going back to the moon and couldn't.

And I have often thought that we should leave the moon alone in our quest for space exploration and use asteroids for raw materials that we would need. But recently, I've been watching the renewed effort to go back to the moon proposed by George W. Bush. It appears there is adequate water on the moon and there is a possibility that lava tunnels may provide ready-made housing and protection from radiation and temperature extremes for those that would mine the moon for materials used in reaching further out into space.

With all the commercial efforts underway like were taking place at the beginning of the twentieth century, I wonder what it will be like looking back 50 years from now and 100 years after that historic landing when we became extraterrestrials.

Ron