50 years ago today, at this moment, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon in their lander. At 9:17 PM my time (Central) that half-century ago Mr. Armstrong will have stepped out onto the lunar surface. It is an awe-inspiring thought that we as humans were able to point our rockets up off of Earth to reach the Moon instead of pointing them at other countries, if ever-so-briefly. My Grandfather, Raymond Burton, worked for NASA those years ago when we went to the moon and always had stellar stories about it and everything else. I miss him a lot, but all this reminiscing about when we went to the Moon would make him smile.
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