The first time humans saw the whole Earth with their own eyes

This image is historic. It’s the first time humans saw the entire Earth with their own eyes. The Apollo 8 astronauts took this picture on as they ventured into deep space on December 1968. Till today only 24 humans had the chance to see the Earth from this distance.

There is no better place than space to realise the inherent unity and oneness of everything on the planet and the irreplaceable value it has for all of us.

Frank Borman, one of the three astronauts on bord of the Apollo 8 spacecraft said:

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me – a small disk, 240,000 miles away… Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don’t show from that distance.

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