>>5001019 It takes a special combination of courage, adventure, and curiosity to willfully depart the single cosmic frame of reference that our body and minds have adapted to for billions of years. It takes much more to land on a celestial body so far away that it makes our own petty disputes and divisions seem utterly meaningless. Those few pioneers are the pathfinders for what will hopefully be a great outpouring of human beings into the cosmos. Though it will be impossible to remember every human who eventually leaves this Earth, all will remember the very first. I don't claim to know where Neil Armstrong might end up, but I do know that every human being who does and will ever live on the Earth knows where he has been.