First Step ~ remembering the Moon landing

Space Pioneers avatars with their Moon landing craft and Apollo spacesuits in Second Life

How will the 1969 Moon landing be remembered a hundred years from now?

It was the first step by explorers from Earth onto another world, our first step beyond our home planet.

Space Pioneers invite the remembrance of that memorable step onto the lunar surface, at the time it happened in 1969, when millions of people stopped to watch this historic event beamed live from the Sea of Tranquility.

Being live, the Moon landing falls across 24 time zones around the World over two days.

In Washington it was Sunday 20 July, but in eastern Australia, the time was 12.56pm on Monday 21 July.

This is the date and time when Space Pioneers will be remembering the Moon landing, meeting in Second Life, where we have an Apollo Moon landing craft model and will be wearing our Apollo spacesuits.

We call this event ~ First Step ~ when people around the world, in all 24 time zones, can stop to remember the day our Earth stood still for that momentous moment, when Neil Armstrong said those haunting words ~

“That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.”

When we learn to fly among the stars and live in space settlements scattered across the Solar System, could remembering our fist step beyond Earth become a unique event that unites the Human family in a moment of remembering and wondering about our next giant leap?

WHERE ~ Our Apollo Moon landing craft is located at the western end of the Greek temple at Nautilus – Shahar in Second Life.

WHEN ~ 12.56pm Sunday 21 July Eastern Standard Time ~ and whatever the hour and day is in all other time zones.

FIRST STEP ~ First Step was first proposed by Kim Peart in 2007 when living in Tasmania, as there was no annual event to remember this significant date and moment in human history. The first First Step event was held at the Tasmanian Space Centre on Rosny Hill in Tasmania in July 2007. In July 2009 First Step happened in Salt Lake City.
Kim Peart, Space Pioneers