With this short audio vignette, I want to take you on a journey.

And with that journey, I want to ask an important question,

a question that perhaps you can present to people you encounter who believe that the Christian

Bible is literally perfect, literally good, and literally true. Beyond that, I hope it encourages

you and inspires you and serves as a reminder to all of us of just how far humanity has come,

and what we might one day achieve.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation

Space X, a private aerospace company based out of Hawthorne, California.

It was founded 17 years ago by entrepreneur Elon Musk, with the goal of advancing space

travel and transport for private and public use for both us and our governments and humanity as a whole,

and with the on-the-horizon goal of one day establishing a colony of human beings living on Mars.

April 11, 2019. It's the test launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, a partially reusable vehicle

with a combination of 27 engines, driving a mega rocket. The Falcon Heavy has the highest payload

capacity of any launch vehicle in operation today. It's made and launched taking place in February

of last year. I'm sure you remember the Falcon Heavy carried a Tesla Roadster as its test payload,

and the car, the Roadster and its mannequin astronaut driver affectionately called Starman,

with a number of video cameras attached to the vehicle so we could watch, began a heliocentric

journey that crossed the orbit of Mars and left planet Earth literally in its rear-view mirror.

That little Tesla automobile hit a distance of 158 million miles from the sun on November 19th of last

year, and then began in its orbit back into the inner solar system. And this September, it will

head back out and then return and back out and return for who knows how long. Starman's long drive

began upon the thrust of the Falcon Heavy rocket. And on the 11th of April of this year, the Falcon's

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