i actually wept

while viewing this page. The very idea that a machine, built by the striving monkey-hands of our race, the human race, was able to travel those millions of miles, and fire away these photos back to us...it makes me so amazed with our stupid little world...
part of me really really wants to be the guy on the one-way ship to whatever planet we want to get the preliminary lander on. What would enthuse the populace of the world more than a single person broadcasting back from, say, mars? Or Titan?