One Giant Step
| Colossians 1:15-28
What humankind saw for the first time 50 years ago gave us a new sense of the cosmos over which Jesus Christ is the head.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Fifty years ago yesterday — July 20, 1969 — the astronaut Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar lander and set foot on the surface of the moon.
His original intent was to say “one small step for a man,” but what came out was “one small step for man.” No matter. For him it was a small step — a short drop, really — from the bottom rung of the ladder to the surface of the moon. But the implications for the human race were enormous.
Armstrong did not take that step without anxiety. Before the historic flight of Apollo 11, his brother Dean had asked him, “What single thing do you have the most uncertainty about?”
His reply: “How deep is the dust?”
It was a real worry for everyone connected with the Apollo 11 mission, but especially for this man who was going to step out onto the Sea of Tranquility. Astronomers knew...
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