Today, one of humanity's greatest explorers in the last 500 years died. He inspired many generations, fuelled the thoughts of many sci-fi shows, and ingrained into each and every boy and girl in the Western world, as much as Yuri Gagarin did for the Soviet world.
I was not alive during the 60's obviously, but you could never escape the man. He looked over your shoulder with each and every book on space that you read, every science book you picked up and looked at combustion rockets, test aircraft or anything about the 60's. He was an inescapable presence of the engineer, the nerd, the fighter pilot. All these made you think, that one day, we children of the world that we are, would hold hands together, and progress into space, encompassing the ideals of bortherhood, prosperity and peace. Unfortunately, this was my utopian dream as child. For a while, it drove me to want to study at Moscow University back when this was a legitimate university, not a buy-a-degree that it is today.
Well sir, I hope that your ideals as a man continue to inspire. I am saddened that NASA no longer seem to share your vision of colonizing the moon, and the US has forgotten what a giant leap in technology for peaceful means can do to an economy and people.
Travel the stars good sir, may you come upon an intelligence more advanced than ours, and find what we are all looking for, peace.
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