.... It didn’t matter how rich or powerful you were, how much you might have wanted to rise above the clouds and look back at our home planet, it wasn’t possible technologically to do so (though, of course, we had hints of it through hot...
.... Thanks to them and all those who followed them, we became, effectively or vicariously, riders of the clouds and children of the stars. And we even walked on the Moon: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind...