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The first thing we did when we got to the Moon.

One small step.                        When Neil Armstrong`s boot disturbed the basaltic surface of the Moon on July 21st 1969 it was indeed one small step for one man. But behind that single step lay a series of other small steps that all came together in order to form that giant leap for Mankind. If you ran the film backwards, the boot would go up the ladder into the Lunar Module which would then leap back onto the massive rocket powerful enough to take us out of Earth's jealous grasp. The boot and the rocket would land in Delaware and then the rocket alone would travel on to Nazi Germany, painted with light by Fritz Lang, before disappearing into the minds and imaginations of human beings as far back as people go.        This action was the fulfillment of an idea that our species had dreamed upon since first we raised our gaze to the heavens and began to question: What is that thing up there? and how can we get there?  As well being the natural consequence of the evolu