40 years ago mankind had the courage to visit the moon, stood on its surface, and explored a small area of the moon, but that was the only time that humans visited the moon. Before and after the moon race, U.S. and other space nations only had sent out humans to explore the closest orbits, robotic probes and satellites to probe new planets, and humans could only see the adventures from home through satellites’ captured images. Mankind now has space-station — out of space but so near earth. Humans live on space-station to do research and so on… The hope is that one day mankind will be able to send more humans to different planets — to do research, explore, find ways that allow the future space colonizers to live there. Where should we go? A planet comes into mind which is Mars.
For average people like the most of us who aren’t the astronauts, we are more than happy to see the moon virtually. Google Earth is a software that was developed by Google, and this software allows people to view streets, cities, and other images of Earth’s specific locations. Google has just launched a new feature inside Google Earth to allow everyone to revisit the moon as the astronauts of Apollo 11 once had. See it for yourself by installing Google Earth! Also, you can read all about this on Google’s blog.
Vinh Nguyen
