“We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.”
William (Bill) Anders, Apollo 8 Astronaut
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 Astronaut
“The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”
Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2 Cosmonaut, first human to walk in space
“I'm coming back in…and it's the saddest moment of my life.”
Edward Higgins White II, on being told to re-enter the Gemini capsule, ending America's first spacewalk
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