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thinking or Rich of black choice by Dr Dennis Kimbrel. We have always been explorers. It is a part of our nature. Since we first evolved a 1,000,000 years or so ago in Africa, we have wandered and explored our way across the planet. Humans have explored every constant from holds a pole from Mount Everest to the Dead Sea. This exploratory urge has clear survival value and is not restricted to any one nation or ethnic group. It is an endowment that human species has in common. But at just the time when the earth has become almost entirely explored, other worlds beckoned. Two minutes, two minutes and counting. The voice giving that command belongs to the test conductor in the firing room of Nasa's lodge Control center. He is completing the countdown for the greatest adventure in the history of civilization, the first man lunar flight, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. It somehow seems difficult to believe that the space age is still in its infancy today, satellites routinely over the earth, relaying television programs from points all over the world, flashing warnings of developing storms and surveying the planet's precious supply of natural resource is robot spacecraft journey far into the solar system, transmitting unprecedented photographs of the once mysterious faces of the moon, Jupiter and Mars. Now, man talked almost matter of fact, we about the day when he will venture to other Galaxies t minus one minute and counting. The voice crackles over one of the hundreds of communications circuits monitored by launch crew members. **** else is 1/16 centuries European philosopher, challenged our character when he wrote God did not create the planets and stars with the intention that they should dominate man. But they, like other creatures, should obey and serve him. Historians will record at the opening of this era you from that promise and potential occurred only in the middle of the 20th century, when Man first successfully launched a package of scientific instruments called Sputnik one. The Foundation for Space Exploration for the Betterment of the Life on Earth had been laid