When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is.
Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it’s actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
Testimonials
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
-XYZ
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.
-ABC
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
-LMNOP
