mission

Apollo 11 at Fifty-Five

What shall we say
Of the lunar landing
Aldrin
Armstrong
Collins
The many who built the ship
Built the rocket
The many who were on the crew
That day
Whose words and switches
Made things happen

I was there
With the nation
With the world
With the Soviets
Disappointed maybe
Angry
Though I think impressed
All the same
And also many were
Admiring
I believe

Other democracies
Might have been
Envious
Too
That the USA pulled off
What fictively had happened
Already in
Novels
And in the movies
(sometimes
first as novels)
Too

I’d like to think
That all the human spirit
Was attending
That was alive
That day
Astounded
And admiring
One small for a person

One giant leap
For humankind
For all of us then
And now

(and
does this verse
look like a launching

maybe
the beginning
of a landing)

C L Couch

Photo by Sebastian Bjune on Unsplash
[if I could have found an eagle landing on the water, well, maybe I would have posted that for symbolism]

(x = space)

Missio

Oh, Lord,

Too many things

Are going wrong

And yet I’m here

You are here

Things could be worse

It always can be said

And it’s true

How precious are my things

Over someone else’s?

Well, they’re not:

Not to say that

I don’t count

Maybe it’s to speak

To the preciousness

Of things,

Which are not

But life, well yes, life

Matters

It’s what we have

And all we have when

We go to the other side

So what matters?

Maybe nothing much

Except the spirit

Except that on this side

Of things,

There should be

So much less

Suffering

Especially the kind we can

Inflict on each other

Imagining

If we didn’t start so many

Wildfires

You know that most of them

Are human-made

You know

Amen

C L Couch

Photo by Alex Lvrs on Unsplash

Science Always Starts

(NASA.gov)

Science always starts

With a question

Science always starts

This week’s question

This moment’s question

Have you seen this

Are you looking

Are you looking for

Have you seen

Are you looking

Precipitation Education

Why are there six

Sides

Why so many

Why so few

Science Opportunities for (the)

Future

Opportunities for

Future

Opportunities

For all schools to watch

For all

For all to watch

Exoplanet Transiting

Set to launch

“Aurorasaurus”

Citizen Scientist Project

Webinars

Citizen Scientist

NASA STEM

Earth Right Now

Sun and Water Cycle

Water Cycle

Sun

Solar Week in March

In the month of spring

Solar Eclipse Workshops next

NASA Journey to Mars

Free

Free Journey

Free Journey to Mars

Planetarium

Dome Education

New

Explore NASA Science

Website

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NASA Science

New science

New science website

Are you looking for

Find science resources

Are you looking for resources

Did you miss last week’s

Nasa’s Science Education

WOW

Education on the web

The web

Educating

Did you miss

Education

Science

Are you looking

Did you miss

Find resources

Don’t miss

Looking

Visit

Check out

Free

(Be) free

Celebrate

Integrating

Fly

Survey

Opportunities

Science starts always

Always with a question

This Week’s Question

Have you seen

Have you this

Check out the latest

WOW

With a question

Have you seen

Have you this

Mission

You have a mission

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(Inspired by “the latest edition of NASA Education’s ‘Science WOW!’—your source for NASA opportunities in science education delivered ‘Weekly On Wednesday.’” Sent from education@nasa.gov.)