Goosebumps

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/video-player/video-player.html?playerId=1550041754&titleId=1581487584

They don't come often but when they do, they have the power to drain all the energy out of a person. "They" are goosebumps. Good goosebumps. You know, those moments in which you have little to say but "wow."
Moments of great triumph. Moments of great suspense. Moments that you can never see coming but are glad that they came.

I typically get goosebumps from several types of events: sporting events, movies and documentaries. Recently, there has been one documentary series on TV that has stunned me. Each episode leaves me drained of energy, goosebumps at work, and saying, "Wow." It's called "When We Left Earth" and it's a documentary series about the NASA space missions on Discovery Channel. The program uses archival footage from NASA mixed with modern comments from the astronauts, flight directors, and other people closely associated with the space program. I highly recommend it.

I've included a clip above from the series about the moon landing of Apollo 11. Enjoy. Just watch out for goosebumps!

UPDATE: In watching the NASA missions, I am ever reminded of the fact that I spent several years living just down NASA Road 1 from the Johnson Space Center in Texas, home of NASA. I clearly remember looking up as a 6-year-old at the huge Saturn rocket they have on display outside the center. Did I say huge? It's ginormous! Even cooler is the fact that we lived seven doors down from John Young, one of the legends who flew in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, walking on the moon and piloting the first shuttle flight.

Okay. Enough boasting. I have some things to say about the theology of what I'm watching, which I will post later.