You may not know that a brilliant woman from the State of West Virginia, the genius Katherine Johnson, played a significant role in the NASA project that landed men on the moon (and brought them back home). Read more about her here.  Less than a month ago, a NASA facility in Fairmont, WV was renamed to honor her.

I was not yet two year’s old when the lunar landing occurred. So I was alive, but not yet old enough to have any “actual memories” of the  event myself. Just as with many of you, my memories were  cemented by video footage seen much later, along with articles, books, and movies. Today I wept as I watched this excellent, short documentary that Google is featuring as their current Google Doodle (click to watch):

Here’s the googledoodles description of it:

50 years ago, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission changed our world and ideas of what is possible by successfully landing humans on the surface of the moon⁠—and bringing them home safely⁠—for the first time in history. Today’s video Doodle celebrates this moment of human achievement by taking us through the journey to the moon and back, narrated by someone with firsthand knowledge of the epic event: former astronaut and Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins.

For more info behind the Doodle, please visit: https://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing