..."Magnificent Desolation"... Is what Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin said to
refine Neil Armstrong's remark "Magnificent view", after a short
contemplatitve pause. A soundbite that has been multiply beat by Neil's
beautiful "small step for man, giant leap for mankind". Of course the
first words on the Moon would be the ones to go down in history as
definition of the event.
However, "Magnificent Desolation" to me
is the true term in wich I feel some of the impressiveness of the whole
experience and place is condensed.
Neil Armstrong is
the official hero, being first to step down, a logical consequence of
his rank as commander. To me Buzz is the one that really got the whole
experience engrained in his soul, so much so he spent years and years
after the fact to come to terms with the sheer awesomeness of it.
This
morning I'd been watching a marvellous 2 hour documentary on NASA-tv
about the entire history of American spaceflight. So when I started
playing when the whole Moon-landing-segment had concluded of course
there was only that in my mind and heart...
I got into
the contrast between the highstrung intense experience and practice of
spaceflight on the edge of experience, science and engineering, and the
magnificent desolation of space ande the Moon. And of 3 people entirely
cut of from the planet, only linked by umbilical radio...
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