The famous British climber, George Mallory, often wondered: “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” His most famous answer was simply “because it is there.”
Humankind has always had a natural predisposition for exploration. To push the limits beyond what is familiar, comfortable and safe embrace the unknown. In fact, the entire history of mankind is hung on a timeline for exploration. We did pass through our respective continents, which sailed across the oceans to new lands, and yet we explored the poles of our planet, literally the end of the world. Mankind has explored the whole area of the world, and after having done this, we still have to stop. By contrast, attend. We invented and took to the skies to explore the earth in a whole new way. We invented the space shuttle and pushed toward the heavens. We are orbiting the planet, took images of distant galaxies, men and landed on the moon.
Every time we build into the unknown, we did out of fear. In the first sailors believed that if we raced on the horizon, they fall under the end of the world into a pit of monsters. From pilots felt that if they broke the sound barrier, which operate their planes. And in many cases, when the first explorers right to be afraid. George Mallory died in the attempt to summit Everest, Henry Hudson was murdered by his own crew in a mutiny, while exploring the Hudson Bay, and Amelia Earhart disappeared while attempting to circumnavigate the world. And yet each browser history of mankind has acquired a knowledge of these risks in their efforts to go where nobody has before ido.
If the value is not absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear, then I think the bravest of all the commitments made by humanity is exploration.
Robert Browning wrote “man must come to exceed its scope, or what is a heaven.” In the 21 century, mankind must continue to reach beyond their grasp. We must continue to push the limits of what we know and what we spent. We must be prepared to fail and decided to continue despite these failures. We must add to the great timeline for further exploration is what the next step.
March is what is the next step. We already have the technology and expertise necessary to achieve this. All that is lacking is the will to make it happen. In 1962, President Kennedy declared that the U.S. land a man on the moon by the end of this decade. Now at the dawn of a new millennium, the world’s nations must commit themselves to reaching the next step in the exploration of the man, sending the first representatives of the Earth to another planet. And when asked: “Why Mars?” Humanity must respond with one voice, “Why is there”.
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