Cosmic Creations

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more? Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.