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World Moon Bounce Day 17th April 2010

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Apollo Quotes

  • “It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
    by Alan Shepard
  • “Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”
    by Neil Armstrong
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Earth from Apollo: Historic Original Photo

One of the first Apollo missions circled the Moon and took this photo of the complete orb of Earth. The series of similar images that Apollo brought back had worldwide impact, as people saw for the first time what we had always known — we live on a single living planet, in an ocean of space. Here’s an image of sufficient size and resolution for zooming and printing. A piece of space history from NASA.

Here is a link to the same picture with information in PDF format:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/58159main_Apollo.17.View.of.Earth.pdf