We survive by overcoming the boundaries, by paying the price for progress with human lives. It is the way of our nature, to reach beyond our knowledge, and our experience.
We are on the brink. of again entering the wilderness of space. On the other side of that dark sea lies opportunities for us to grow, learn, and adapt to new environments, new lands, new worlds, upon which we will leave our children and grandchildren.
If we are to cross the dark seas of space to conquer the lands that await us there, we must accept the necessary price of human lives in the course of such an effort. Those who willingly put their lives in jeopardy are heroes, pioneers, and pathfinders, for in their deaths, we will take that next important step of learning what went wrong. We use that knowledge to move one step closer toward the expansion of human kind.
We press on, and win out in the end. And in that winning we rediscover what it is to be human, to have heroes that show us our honorable qualities; and to have the villians who show us the despicable qualities, all that make us who we are. We discover the heroes who lead us onward, the villians we despise and overcome, and the humanity in us all that works to press on no matter what the cost, because we know, that the world we make will be better for our children, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. Because we are human, we remember, and we, go on.