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I’ve got this red pencil at my desk,
with a pithy little saying printed in
all caps: “Less dreaming more ass kicking.”
I bring it up not to be crude, but to point
out that the two actions aren’t mutually
exclusive. It’s been on my mind because
that saying could be applied directly to the
adventures of three astronauts in the sum-
mer of 1969.
Millions watched as Neil Armstrong
took the first steps on the moon, part of
an Apollo program that clipped along over
12 years and a series of successful flights.
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
and the teams supporting them wouldn’t
have made it without a decent dose of
dreaming, a pile of hard work and a lot
of science.
We devote dozens of pages in this issue
to the breadth of the Apollo program,
which ran well before and after that his-
toric moonwalk. We bring you the voices of the program’s remaining
astronauts, the stunning photos captured from spacecraft and a timeline
that fits it all together. Our section also addresses NASA’s lag in bringing
women astronauts on board, and Apollo’s impact on culture and science.
And science is definitely at the center of it all. It’s integral to the dream-
ing that kicked off the race to the moon, essential for the exploration and
vital to the inherent risk-taking involved in any spaceflight.
Our second section in this issue explores the risks that ancient humans
took as they migrated around the globe, island-hopping and hugging
coastlines. The only problem for archaeologists? All those potential sites
are now under water. We take you through their work as researchers
reconstruct what those coastal environments were like tens of thousands
of years ago. No question, our ancestors dreamed about what was just
beyond the horizon, and then got to work exploring.O
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