This is Tom Hanks.
There comes a time in each of our lives when
it first dawns on us that we're not the center
of the universe, that we are part of something
larger than ourselves.
As it happens to each of us, so it is happening
to our civilization right now.
We are living in the golden age of astronomy.
We are completing the spacecraft reconnaissance
of our solar system.
We our using other kinds of light to observe
the life cycles of stars and galaxies, revealing
wonders never before visible.
We are mapping the grand structure of the
universe, tracing its ancient past, finding
our place in its great story.
We are becoming citizens of the cosmos.
