Today is the 42nd anniversary of a triumph in U.S. technology--the fulfillment of President John F. Kennedy's 1961 stated national goal of "landing a man on the moon" and, some days later, " returning him safely to the earth."
Age 17 years at the time, I wrote in that night, "All of us are now members of the second man," because it seemed to me that, from that time on. the development of the human species meant something different from what it was before. The same nation that made "one small step for man" into "one giant leap for mankind" (said Neil Armstrong, first human being to stand on the moon), should have a measurement system that is cognate with its ideals in science. We at USMA shall continue to fight for that national goal. SIncerely, Paul R. Trusten Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org [email protected] +1(432)528-7724
