unquenched

“Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills” - JFK ~ fifty-five years … and despite extraordinary leaps in the applications of technology, we have not returned to press that wondrous fall of moon dust … there are ghosts of those who gave their lives to the scientific exploration of the starry vault that is our heavenly crown, crying for the satiation of that thirst - and if and when we do return, I pray those phantoms are benevolent, that their crosses are upright, and their wistful, wandering spirits … at rest.