Published in the Washington Times on July 20, 2004.It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the Moon. The July 20 anniversary always brings joy and inspiration at that achievement but also disappointment that only twelve brave humans so far and so long ago have ventured to another world. Let us analyze these sentiments. Ayn Rand believed that each individual and society has a "sense of life," an emotional manifestation of their deepest appraisal of mankind and the nature of the world in...