Perspective

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"We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just form the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself."

-Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13, interview for the 2007 film The Shadow of the Moon


"When you're finally up at the moon  looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people."

-Frank Borman, Apollo 8, Newsweek, Dec. 23 1968