Editor's Comment: Forging connections

Look at your phone. I'm serious, put it in your hand and look at it. Right now you are holding substantially more computing power than it took to send a rocket to the moon in 1969.

Every dream we have needs a whole bunch of people to make it a reality.

Look at your phone. I'm serious, put it in your hand and look at it. Right now you are holding substantially more computing power than it took to send a rocket to the moon in 1969. Amidst the cliches and hype, it's easy to forget just how impressive that actually is.

This month's cover feature is about the kind of dreaming that sent Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins on that fateful trip. Just this ...