
40 years ago today, this happened. [points up] Which led to exciting times for the astronauts… [points down]


Well, the point was, not only did we land on the moon in 1969, the astronauts lived to tell about it, and in fact came back here:

…which really, is quite remarkable.
I’ve always liked Google’s logo designs for special events, and for the 40th on Monday, they had this up, which I find admirably subtle:



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