Photo: REUTERSThere’s more that the moon landing can teach us than we realizeMy mother was asked to pray for Neil Armstrong and two other American astronauts the day the first man on the moon had made “one giant leap for mankind.” Days later, my elder brother received a letter from his penpal in Ohio, who wrote to him that they were more proud of the Apollo 11 commander, since he was from their state. South Asians watched on television as Armstrong climbed down the ladder to touch the moon, making it a memorable moment of history. In the 1970s, we were brought up in a village of Tangail with a lot of obsession regarding the moon landing and stories such as the Titanic disaster. The moon mission had been materialized within the timeframe spelled out by Kennedy. Sometimes we wonder why we even read about the space mission when we fear to dream big.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 22, 2019 12:33 UTC