Space, The Final Frontier! #193 By Hank Silverberg On July 20th, 1969, I sat in front of a small black and white TV, in a Connecticut living room with my 71 year-old Grandma Francis and the rest of my family, watching the most amazing scientific advancement of the 20th century, or so we thought. (Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969, Courtesy of NASA) Apollo 11 had just landed on the moon and my grandma, who was born before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, was astounded. She simply could not believe that human beings were on the moon, even after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. For me as a 14 year-old, it opened so many possibilities for the future, it was mind boggling. Apollo 11 and the space missions that followed dramatically in the next few years brought promise of "strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations." After all, Star Trek's Captai...