The Way of the Astronaut
Following is an article I published in the spring 1998 issue of I Am Nation News, reprinted here in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, July 20, 1969.
There exists on our planet a small, rare fraternity of twelve men — and only twelve — who physically have stepped onto the surface of another world. And it has long been my dream, in my soul mission for the Federation of Planets, to meet one of these extraordinary explorers face-to-face.
I’m referring of course to the twelve Apollo astronauts who, in the late 1960s …