Yep. There’s plenty of room to make “first” history on our moon, which will probably happen within most of our lifetimes.
My 8 year old daughter, much to my pleasant surprise, said as she was looking at yesterday’s full moon, “I want to be the first woman on the moon.”
That right there blew me away, as I never really gave it much thought. We all know Neil effed up the first words spoken by man. Can a woman do better, and what would YOU say?
“About time, too”?
“Damn, this helmet makes my hair frizzy.”
“Look at all the DUST”
“Oh, dear! This place hasn’t been dusted in years!”
Aw, son of a…! Curse you, capital letters guy!
Oh No! I’m not cleaning this up!
Drat! It surely doesn’t taste like cheese!
“I know there’s less gravity here, but this spacesuit still makes me look fat!”
“If we can put a Man on the Moon, why can’t we put them all up there?”
HA! This is the best. Keep 'em rollin.
“The dresser would look better over there.”
Whatever her plans for a poignant or profound comment, she’ll step out of the lander and onto the lunar surface, only to have her cell phone ring. So the first word uttered on the Moon by a woman will be “Hello”, followed by “No, Amy, I can’t just drop what I’m doing, come home, and drive you and your cheerleader friends to the mall!”
That’s one small step for (a) woman; one amazing, incredible, totally unbelievable it-took-x-number-of-years-after-a-man-did-it leap for all womankind.
After having spent an hour or more trying to park the LEM, her first words will probably be: “Houston, it’s just a scratch. That’s why we have insurance!”
As long as she doesn’t try to cover it up with nail polish.
“Great–looking at all the mess the Apollo boys left behind!”
“My feet are swelling in these shoes. I can never find comfortable shoes. Houston, is there a shoe store nearby?”
If the first woman has the ovaries to actually say that, I’d be most pleased.
