Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has been searching the ocean floor for some of the pieces of the old Saturn-V boosters that took human beings to the moon -- back when human beings had the idea of going to the moon -- and examination of some of the pieces is showing which specific rockets have been recovered from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
Yesterday, on the blog Bezos has been keeping about the project, he confirmed that the actual booster used to lift Apollo 11 to the moon for the first landing is among those recovered.
Forty-four years ago today, the late Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on a body not Earth. Eventually, an even dozen men walked on our nearest neighbor. Eight are still living; Apollo 16's Charles Duke is the youngest at 77.
Armstrong's crewmate Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, celebrated communion in the capsule after landing. His home church, Webster Presbyterian of Webster, Texas, supplied him with the chalice and elements and holds what it calls "Lunar Communion" every year on the Sunday closest to July 20. This year, that will be tomorrow.
The church, of course, has a year-round reminder of its connection to space history, as its address is "201 West NASA Parkway."
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