Finding faith on the moon

To get a man on the moon and bring him back, that was the challenge issued by President Kennedy. After seven years of science and mathematics and precision, a Purdue engineer and pilot stepped off a step on a ladder and touched down on the previously unknown. Numbers and scientific proof and equations and method.

But ultimately, there was a whole lot of faith in the process, in the people, in the work, in the machinery and in the God that carried them from Cape Kennedy to the Sea of Tranquility and back to earth. The proof of that lay in the final step he took.

Because Neil didn't know what would happen when he stepped off that step. He didn't know what his foot would hit when he stepped. And after it all was over, they didn't really know what would happen when they hit the jets which would take them back into orbit. They had faith that Michael Collins would be able to dock the command module with the lem. They all had faith that the science and the mathematics would shoot them out of that orbit around the moon and return them to earth and that the parachute would hold when they dropped in the ocean.

And despite the precaution of placing them in an air-tight trailer on board the aircraft carrier for several weeks, they all had faith that they had not brought anything back from the moon which would contaminate our planet.

And they all were right to place their faith where they did. Because that is exactly what they believed and exactly what President Kennedy believed when he challenged us to go there in the first place.