Some can argue it was poetry
that sent us to the moon and that science
was but the tool for realising dreams
while others may say that the main agent
of inspiration was the Soviet threat,
a pissing contest for world dominance,
to fly the flag in view of our planet.
But on the day that Armstrong leaves the earth
for a third time, the footprint that he set
on that dry surface will hold greater worth
for all the unborn stargazers to the come
than any flag that signals who was first
among the proud tribes of our shrinking home.
Niall O'Sullivan
The Mundane Comedy 