46 Anniversary of the First Landing on the Moon

Since recently we had accomplished quite a impressive list of space explorations (Pluto, Mars, landing on the passing comet) its just fitting that now we celebrate the 46th anniversary of our very first landing on the Moon. It is a truly stunning feat, considering that for centuries everything went incredibly slow and now suddenly we are up there, sending all sorts of machines left and right, far beyond what was known previously. However, we did not really managed to send people further than the Moon. Not exactly sure why is it so and does it really matter, it just naturally places a question does it work the same way from (presumably) some other, alien side? I have no doubts whatsoever that there is a life somewhere out there in some kind of form, though would it be good for us to actually contact them is another question. Looking around here, in our own planet and history, every time one culture met the other, usually stronger one ruthlessly exploited and destroyed the weaker one. So who is to say we wouldn't be eaten or enslaved or simply destroyed by either chemical weapons or killed by alien germs (like Native Americans who died during first contact with European flu and such)? I am a bit suspicious about the contact because there is no 100% guarantee that alien life will be friendly and benevolent. 

Back to Apollo 11 and its landing on the Moon, on July 20, 1969: no doubt it was absolutely monumental achievement and the whole world held its breath until guys actually landed. Unless you count doubters who still refuse to believe it actually happened. Which for me is the same as people who refused to believe there was a Holocaust in Europe and claimed the pictures were faked. I still find all the pictures and movies made back than extremely exciting because for me there is no machine or robot that can match the real human contact with out-of-space territory. 

The names of three brave guys are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin and in my mind they are on the same level as heroes from Greek mythology.