04-14-2026, 12:09 AM
return to the moon
Even as we return to the moon
in 2026, l read back to 1956
when the Soviet Cosmodrome
was being built in a desolate area
we now know as Kazakhstan.
In 2019 my son did closeout
of a satellite in a capsule 190 feet
above the launchpad in Baikonur
and I asked him to imagine
Yuri Gagarin sitting in the same place
in 1961, waiting to blast us
into the age of human spaceflight
Even as we return to the moon
in 2026, l read back to 1956
when the Soviet Cosmodrome
was being built in a desolate area
we now know as Kazakhstan.
In 2019 my son did closeout
of a satellite in a capsule 190 feet
above the launchpad in Baikonur
and I asked him to imagine
Yuri Gagarin sitting in the same place
in 1961, waiting to blast us
into the age of human spaceflight