Relive Man's First Step on the Moon

As a child, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and an astronomer to travel through space and discover new worlds. I was a whiz when it comes to names of rockets, capsules, stars, moons, and planets but too bad the Philippines never had a space program (Did Marcos try to create one?).

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11, the first mission to land people on the moon. It was so unfortunate that I was not born twenty years earlier to witness this historical landmark, but thanks to modern technology and the internet, we can all watch the mission as it happened forty years ago.

The JFK Presidential Library and Museum set-up a website to recreate the 'most significant' achievement of President John F. Kennedy. If you want to catch a glimpse of the location of the command module Columbia and the lunar lander Eagle at this moment, go to www.wechoosethemoon.org.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK