Psalm 8: 3-4

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?



It's always good to consider His works, which is one of the reasons that the Astronomy Pic of the Day is linked to the right. And Dan Durda of Southwest Research Institute has created a web site that lets visitors explore the Apollo moon-landing sites.



In his meditation on Psalm 8 during Wednesday's audience, Pope John Paul II referred to the Apollo program's greatest mission and the words of Pope Paul VI at the time:



"Man ..., at the heart of this enterprise, is revealed to us as gigantic. He seems to be divine, not in himself, but in his beginning and in his end. Honor, therefore, to man, honor to his dignity, to his spirit, to his life." With these words, in July 1969, Paul VI entrusted to the American astronauts leaving for the moon the text of Psalm 8, which was just proclaimed, so that it would enter into the cosmic spaces (Insegnamenti VII [1969], pp. 493-494).