Onward and Upward

Today in 1938 Clifford Odet's play Rocket to the Moon premieres in New York City and on this same day in 1969 NASA's Apollo 12, the second manned Moon flight, returns to Planet Earth.

In other news of the cosmos, the Ukrainian Sect White Brotherhood predicts that the end of the world will occur on this date in 1993. Apparently they were wrong.

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection on this day in 1859. I wonder what he would think about the progress of our species, from a non-physiological point of view. Well, it's National Flossing Day so maybe we are getting somewhere after all. Human evolution is such a mysterious thing.

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