» 1 million BCE (before common era)

     The ape-like being had stayed fixated at the night sky for hours. His curiosity beckoned his imagination to provide answers about the vast open blackness, the distant lights, and that especially big bright orb. What is known by the modern-day child was the most challenging of ideas for this pre-human being. Finally, an intelligent thought emerged through the ancient neuro-pathways. That orb was another world like his and the smaller lights were suns farther away than his world was. To the omnipresent observer, if there is one, the story of humanity's destiny in space had begun.