Some strange things are happening to astronauts returning to Earth.
“One of the astronauts said, ‘When we originally went to the moon our total focus was on the moon, we weren’t thinking about looking back at the Earth. But now that we’ve done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went.’” -David Beaver
“I’m sure we all interpreted it somewhat differently. I know some of the fellows would go right to a religious explanation. I didn’t, I went to more of a science explanation, and, uh, I think ‘Oh that’s wonderful. That’s what it takes to build a civilization.’” - Edgar Mitchell
“When I was above the space station looking down at the space station, looking down against the Earth and seeing this, you know, amazing accomplishment, you know I was thinking ‘Wow, you know there were fifteen nations that worked together to build this amazing orbital complex in space. And if we can, you know, take these fifteen nations and do this amazing accomplishment imagine what we can do by working together by setting aside our differences for a common goal to overcome some of the challenges facing our planet.’” - Ron J. Garan Jr.
