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Up next, a story from a regular contributor, Richard Munez. Today, Richard shares with us the story of a magical moment in his life when he was young. His first time seeing a satellite. Take it away, Richard. If you stop and think about it, it's really funny how memories work.
I'm not saying funny, haha. I'm saying funny, strange. When I stop and think about it, before six years old, my memories are they're kind of spotty at best. But there is stuff that sticks out more than others. And one of those that sticks out more than some of the other ones is the first time I ever recall seeing a satellite.
I wasn't even five years old yet, and we were going into the mountains.
Now, when I talk about the mountains, what I'm talking about here is a tract of land in northern New Mexico. In years to come, we'd follow Highway 17 up and around Cumbers Pass and come in through a different road.
Now this led up to our summer range, and this is where we took our cattle in summer. But this time, we took the road up through Osier.
Now at the time, it was nothing more than a large water tank for the steam engines that used to move between Antioch and Chama. The other thing I recall about Osier is the station itself. At the time, it wasn't open, but in this particular memory, what had happened was we had started out for the mountains. And it was already late in the day, and it had been very stormy. What this was was a family and extended family trip, and we were going to go up to the mountains.
We were going to stay what we called the Green Cabin, pretty nice cabin. The reason it had its name was, guess what? It was painted green. As I mentioned, it was pretty stormy. It rained very heavily.
It was raining so heavily up in the mountains. In fact, we kind of aborted our trip up into the mountains. We had two-wheel drive pickups. The soft mud was threatening to get them stuck, so unable to go forward, unable to go back, we stopped and spent the night at Oshier. The old station was unlocked, so we took refuge there.
I recall everyone bringing in their bedding, and we found a corner to sleep in. A fire was started in the old stove, and a meal was prepared. We ate, and everyone sat around talking. I liked listening to the old timers talk. They always told such interesting stories.
I remember my old granny talking about coming out here with the Mormon expansion. My grandfather talked about coming down here as a boy from Lebanon.
Well, later that evening, the storm cleared out and the skies opened up, washed by the rain. The stars were hard and bright that night. I remember. Echo is supposed to be passing over. I remember someone said, "Echo, yes, that balloon satellite they put up a few weeks ago." So we all went out into the night to look for it.
Now, as a four-year-old boy, I had no idea what an artificial satellite was. Oh, I'd seen TV shows and stuff like that.
So what I was expecting to see was a full-sized 1950-style rocket thundering overhead. Of course, that's not what I got. The Project Echo satellites were launched in 1960 and 1964. The idea behind them was one we take almost for granted today.
Now, way back in 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, the same guy who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, came up with the idea of using satellites as a means of communication. The following year, they tried some experiments using a more natural satellite, in this case our moon, to reflect microwaves for communications.
Well, once Sputnik was launched, Clarke's ideas were right on the verge of becoming reality.
Now, the first real attempts at using this idea was pretty simple. Put a big aluminumized balloon up in space and bounce the signals off that.
Now it took two tries to get the first Echo satellite up. The first one on May 13, 1960, well, that satellite ended up in the Atlantic. The next attempt came a few months later, this time on August 12th. This time the satellite settled into orbit, some thousand miles or so above the Earth.
So what we have here is a hundred foot across aluminumized balloon, miles above the Earth, catching the sunlight. It's made it a really easy target for the eye to spot.
So we step out into the cool mountain air, and I remember I looked up, and there's the universe sprawled out before me. I almost got dizzy looking up, standing there on a loading platform at an aged train station. I stood at the edge of infinity, knots and tangles of stars were overhead, and a ghostly cloud stretched from horizon to horizon. And stars of every color, and by the thousands, blurred into it. I'd never seen anything so glorious.
You see, the light from those stars. I remember Dad saying, "They're so far away, the light left them before you were even born. They're so far away, they may not even be there anymore." Now, the idea of the speed of light meant nothing to me, but if they were that far away, then how far was far? And suddenly, I felt very small and very lost in it all. It thrilled me.
My cosmos had just grown amazingly big, and I was part of something so much bigger than me.
Now, as a young kid, the horizon is always incredibly close. As a child, my universe ended at the mountains that ringed the Sandlos Valley. There was little beyond it. I never put two and two together yet and realized there was more to my world than I knew. And now, with a single sentence, the universe had gotten very, very big for me.
We all peered into the sky, each quietly searching for something. Finally, after several minutes, someone pointed. There, there it is. I looked, and here's a star moving quietly across the sky. I watched it travel like some magical force among the stars, and that, in years to come, I learned so well.
The star moved with so much quiet and dignity; it amazed me. I remember it'd be several seconds before I even remembered to breathe. As I watched it move, it flashed, and then it faded away into the night. And even at four years old, there was a part of me that wished I was up there riding along with it. Today, I've seen God knows how many satellites flying over, and like that four-year-old boy, I still wish I was along for the ride.
And a terrific job by Monty on the production of that piece and the editing. And again, a special thanks to Richard Munez, who's a regular contributor here. On our American stories, check out Richard's blog at William Alban A L B A N dot wordpress dot com, and check out Richard's other stories at ouramericanstories dot com. Just look up Richard Muniz M U N I Z in the search bar. He's got a great one on the first black lawman in Colorado, the Russian Mig jet, and many others.
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