Daily writing prompt

If you could go back and witness any historical event, which one would you pick?

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… and I would like to be on the Moon with the astronauts.

I would choose it not to determine whether the Moon landing was real, but to experience what it represented. For nearly all of human history, we could only look upward at the Moon. We worshipped it, wrote poems about it, used it to measure time, and wondered whether anyone could ever reach it. Then, for the first time, a human being stood upon it and looked back at Earth.

I think seeing Earth from there would affect me even more profoundly than seeing the first step. From that distance, there would be no visible national borders, political parties, religions, races, or territorial disputes—only one small, luminous world carrying everyone who had ever lived.

Hopefully, NASA and SpaceX will be able to bring humans back to the Moon soon… and to Mars as well.