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= — Neil Armstrong = = = = = = If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. = = — Galileo Galilei,Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632. = = = = = = It is tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. = —Bill Anders, Apollo 8, quoted in the 2008 Discovery TV seriesWhen We Left Earth. media type="youtube" key="HJV6LepT6W8" height="315" width="420" align="center"
 * ~ = 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. =

= (The Moon) was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did. = = —Frank Borman, Apollo 8, Interview for the PBS TV showNova, 1999 = ||

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