50 years ago today, Apollo 11 launched the historic mission that put humans on the moon
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the author of"The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind." He also produces a series of science education videos. Follow him on Facebook. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Fifty years ago this month, humans took their first steps on the moon. For those of you too young to remember, it is hard to fully appreciate just how much that achievement engaged the entire planet. It certainly influenced me a great deal, even as a 5-year-old, setting me on a path that led me to become a professional scientist.
Don LincolnThose of my parents' generation saw it all unfold, first listening raptly to the thready radio signals of Sputnik as it circled the globe, and then to President John F. Kennedy's visionary speech in 1962 that set Americans on a path to sending Apollo 11 thundering into space. My generation was too young to recognize the space race for the geopolitical contest it was. Instead, we only knew that something exciting was going on.
Watch Buzz Aldrin step onto the moon for the first time 00:37Read MoreOf course, the challenges of manned space flight are far more complex than my young mind could appreciate. When the last Apollo mission was completed in 1972, NASA pivoted to the Skylab space station, the Apollo-Soyuz handshake, and eventually the Space Shuttle, which first orbited the Earth when I was a high school student, just learning to drive.
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