Of all sad words from tongue or penThe saddest are these: "It might have been."It was 1969 when man first touched lunar groundThe cheering of a nation carried hope within its soundThen the day the president had dared another race"We can and shall be first," he said, "to live and work in space."And I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way?How would we be living on that other sunny day?Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost?Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost?In 1972 the shuttle lifted from the padBy 1976 an L-5 colony we had'78 we headed out, returning to the moonEstablishing a lunar base and expanding through the gloomAnd I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way?How would we be living on that other sunny day?Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost?Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost?So I look back and wonder as the Earth goes sliding byAs I watch the pale sun rising in the airless lunar skyIf Orwell could have seen then what I'm seeing every dayHe never would have guessed that '84 would end that way
>>41509014>It was 1969 when man first touched lunar ground
