Friday, July 17, 2015

Neil Armstrong remarked . . .

Neil Armstrong remarked that from the Moon, the Earth was so small that he could blot it out with his thumb. Did this make him feel big, he was asked. “No," he replied, “it made me feel really, really small."

Robert Poole, Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 190.

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