1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space
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1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space
The astronauts had seen the Earth and they had seen the moon, but this was the first time they were seeing them together—the ugly, broken world beneath them and the lovely, breakable one in front of them.
Jeffrey Kluger • Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Edgar D. Mitchell, an astronaut on Apollo 14 and the sixth man to walk on the moon, memorably put it like this:
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You wa... See more