(CNN) -- If we can put a man on the moon ... I see it every day, the wonderment in the eyes of young children as they walk into the museum. They marvel at the pockmarked Apollo 11 command module or the shininess of the Apollo lunar module or the massive scale of the Space Shuttle Discovery. For them, nearly five decades later, anything is still possible. Forty-five years after the crew of Apollo 11 landed on the moon, millennials have now reached adulthood -- just as the baby boomers did in the 1960s -- and their kids still see hope in the stars.
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Gen. J.R. "Jack" Dailey says, 45 years after the first moonwalk, the allure of space is still strong
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The Air and Space Museum is home to Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
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Visitors can also find the Apollo 11 command module there
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Dailey: For many children and grown-ups, the moon landing represented infinite potential
So when @placeholder set foot on the moon's surface in the summer of 1969, humanity recognized in an unambiguous way that the exploration of space was possible, achievable and inevitable.