- A universal guide for appreciating life, wondering about the universe, and drawing inspirations through the Moon -
A guide that any educators on Earth can use to get their students wondering, inspired, and dreaming, by drawing inspirations from the Moon. appreciate the Moon, wonder about it, and dream about it. Eventually, this becomes part of the standard curriculum for every child in the world. Every child should have an opportunity to look at the Moon as a subject of curiosity, a source of inspiration, and a target of dreams.
The Moon is the one object that virtually everyone throughout the history and future of Earth has or will have seen and stared at. If there is one object that is constantly being looked at at any given moment by someone somewhere, that would be the Moon. We can see the Moon better than anything else that exists outside of Earth (except maybe the Sun but we shouldn't be looking directly at it!). The Moon catches our attention because it is the only object in the sky that changes its appearance noticably from day to day. Humans decided to divide up the year into "months" according to the cycles of the phases of the Moon. Moon makes the night sky dynamic. Everyone must have found the Moon beautiful at some point. Moon is something everyone can relate to. Doing amazing things on the Moon could inspire people around the world who look at it.
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Moon is a New World.
Looking at the Moon, we can see areas of different shades. The Moon is the only object in outer space that we can see in such detail. It's beautiful. It's not a flat patch in the sky -- it's a spherical body 1/4 the size of Earth. It's a new land of a new world. Looking at the Moon makes me wonder what it would be like to be on it. The unknown new world made humans want to go there and explore it... see what it'd be like to be there. So when humans became capable of launching things into space, the Moon was their first destination. We would like to look at the Moon and realize we are doing something there. Wouldn't it touch your life if every time you saw the Moon, you realized that we are right now doing something there... whether it'd be observing the universe or Wouldn't it be awesome to look at the Moon and be able to realize that we are doing something there, as we're looking at it?
We CAN Reach the Moon.
If we could land people on the surface of the Moon in 1969 (over 30 years ago), we're sure capable today of going there. Some day, maybe many of us will be able to experience being on the Moon. A rocket pioneer Robert Goddard said, "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." So let's do something inspiring on the Moon!