"That's the damnedest thing." He didn't have anything else he could say to that. It was the sort of thing so beyond anything he believed would ever be possible in his lifetime it felt as disconnected as he did from the moon.

"You sure have lived one helluva life. Almost sorry to think you got dragged here somehow. Sounds like you'll at least be plenty useful in them labs." He shook his head and reached up to rub just under his hat brim at the nape of his neck.