There is a generation of men and women for whom, in their youth, the planets were unimaginable distant points of light, and the moon was the paradigm of the unattainable.
Those same men and women, in middle life, have seen their fellow humans walk upon the surface of the moon; in their old age, they will likely see men wandering along the dusty surface of Mars, their journeys illuminated by the battered face of Phobos.
“There is only one generation of humans in the 10-million-year history of mankind that will live through such a transition. That generation is alive today!” -- Carl Sagan. (Phobos is one of two Mars moonlets, captured asteroids).
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