We aim for the stars (Part I)

[KenWittlief]

Come dance with the west wind
and touch all the mountain tops
sail over the canyons
and up to the stars

Reach for the heavens
hope for the future
all that we can be
not what we are

-J. Denver

This generation, the students reading CD today, will be part of humanitys first attempts to literally reach for the stars. We have the ability to start sending probes out to the nearest star systems, to survey the neighborhood

it will take 40 or fifty years for them to get there, and 4 or 5 years for their signals to come back and report what they find

but I honestly believe the day is not far off when we stop thinking of Mars and jupiter, and really reach for the stars.

FIRST is not a destination, its not the reward, its the slingshot that will launch you from where you are, to where you can be.