Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up
Men have never been able to really imagine the planet as one sphere, globe, with all the characteristics of a globe, a round earth where all directions finally converge, where there is no center since every point, or none, is center — an equal earth that all men occupy as equals. If free men survive, the world of the airman will be truly round—a globe in reality, not just in idea.
Of course, science works both ways; its outcomes can be employed for good or evil. But science cannot be retreated from. Science also provides the first technological hazard alerts.
Not that a man set foot on the Moon, but rather that they first set eyes on Earth, was the most important aspect of the lunar mission.
In a Chinese folktale, some men who were assigned to harm a little girl instead became her defenders after noticing her beauty. That's how I felt when I first saw the Earth. I couldn't help but adore and love her.
The event most definitely alters your viewpoint for those who have seen the Earth from space as well as the hundreds, possibly thousands, more who will. In our world, the things that unite us are far more valuable than the ones that separate us.
The Final Frontier
There can be no thought of finishing for ‘aiming for the stars.’ Both figuratively and literally, it is a task to occupy the generations. And no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.
The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow. Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.
Spaceflights cannot be stopped. This is not the work of any one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.
Reaching for the Stars
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.
To go places and do things that have never been done before – that’s what living is all about.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore, and this is exploration at its greatest.
· Images by NASA on The Commons
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