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This is so bittersweet. I was 8 in 1969. I KNEW I’d live and work on the Moon someday.
Then in 1973 they gave up the Moon Flights, and something in me died.
Someday, a million years from now, Aliens will find our footprints in the Lunar dust, and look up at the lifeless ball above them, and wonder what it was that failed, our courage, or our common sense.
Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and of circumference Diameter and such. A silent child stood by them From morning until noon Because they drew such charming Round pictures of the moon.
Not to be disagreeable, but don’t write that epitaph on our tombstone just yet. We’ve had some lapses, yes, but our story is going to continue! The universe is waiting for us!
Follow the adventures of 10-year-old Red, a boy who dreams of going to space and loves baseball, and his dog Rover, a loyal friend and chaser of squirrels.
Whether flying through space, bouncing on the moon, fishing, waiting for Popsicle Pete, or delivering the paper, these two friends do everything together.
Reality Check by Dave Whamond
Red Meat by Max Cannon
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comicgos said, 6 months ago
Listen – you can almost hear the ROAR of the engines!
catfeet said, 6 months ago
The New Frontier…so near, yet so far.
Jo Clear said, 6 months ago
Is this ever great art today Brian…really beautiful…
Leo Autodidact said, 6 months ago
This is so bittersweet. I was 8 in 1969. I KNEW I’d live and work on the Moon someday.
Then in 1973 they gave up the Moon Flights, and something in me died.
Someday, a million years from now, Aliens will find our footprints in the Lunar dust, and look up at the lifeless ball above them, and wonder what it was that failed, our courage, or our common sense.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
I was drawing the moon landing all day and finished just around the time they made their landing. Wish I still had it. I recall it well.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@Leo Autodidact
We failed as a species is what they would find. They understood their own past so would it be for most other intelligent life.
Gator007 said, 6 months ago
I was like that in the sixtys.
T_Lexi said, 6 months ago
And Red’s got Pluto hanging from his solar system. What a shock when they demoted Pluto…
brickster said, 6 months ago
Euclid
by Vachel Lindsay
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and of circumference
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.
AshburnStadium said, 6 months ago
@comicgos
But the shadows obscure the best part of the spaceship – the part by Rover’s tail that reads, “DANGER EXHAUST.”
Jeff Livaudais said, 6 months ago
and to boldly go where no boy and dog have gone before!
Citizen GROG!
said, 6 months ago
I wonder if they will meet any aliens along the way. Calvin did today.
mtn2sea said, 6 months ago
The cardboard box. Best toy ever!
The Life I Draw Upon said, 6 months ago
“Americans do this that and the other thing, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.”
I was a kid then, and it has never left me. Indeed, it means more.
rocketscientist said, 6 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Not to be disagreeable, but don’t write that epitaph on our tombstone just yet. We’ve had some lapses, yes, but our story is going to continue! The universe is waiting for us!