retirees that the russians are these days our only ride into space. we don't have a vehicle to get our own astronauts up to the international space station where three americans happen to be living right now. we landed on the moon five more times. one mission failed en route. i'm pretty sure tom hanks was the commander. and think of there as we leave you. all of our stuff is still up there untouched, undisturbed, a couple of lunar rovers, tripods, some tools and the base portion of six lunar landers. we left six american flags up there. made to look like they're waiving even though there's no air or wind because we thought of that too and nasa sewed a wire frame into each flag. every piece we left up there and every footprint in that dust starting with the first footprint 49 years ago tonight is a monument to an era when it seemed like there was nothing we couldn't do.