To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before By Hank Silverberg “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was 10:56 p.m., July 20, 1969, a Sunday night on the east coast of the U.S.A. when Neil Armstrong put the first human foot onto the surface of the moon and uttered those words. Billions of people watched the fuzzy black and white images on television. It was the greatest scientific achievement of the human race, and it was supposed to change the world. I was 14 years old at the time. The space program, steeped more in the cold war than in the spirit of discovery, had grown up with me. My generation had watched the early Mercury missions on TV, often brought into our elementary school classrooms as a “teachable moment," though I don’t think educators had come up with that term yet. We had watched the Gemini missions with the knowledge that they were all practice runs, getting ready for th...