Wendy Zukerman

He was eight years old living in Chihuahua, Mexico, and his dad woke him up to see it.

What do you remember from seeing on the screen?

And not to be a moon killjoy here, but more than 50 years on, Grandma's still got a really good question here.

Why are we doing this?

Really?

After all, back in 1969...

what felt like this big day for humankind, was also this huge political pissing contest between the US and the Soviet Union.

And around the time the US won, they slashed NASA's budget.

And for decades, no one's been that serious about going back to the moon.

That was until, well, just several years ago, really.

Just as the U.S.

and China are getting particularly sassy with each other, here we go again.

The race to the moon is back on with some new players as well.

There are 73 space agencies and probably 20 more are being planned because every country is realizing maybe there's something in it for us.

Like what?

In a recent NASA report, they said that a big reason to go to the moon would be to keep the U.S.

in the leader's position.

Yeah, so they can keep on winning.

And this week, President Trump posted, quote, We are winning in space, on Earth, and everywhere in between, economically, militarily, and now beyond the stars.

Nobody comes close, end quote.