"It's not a very good photo as photos go, but it's a special one. It was the first statement of our planet Earth and it was particularly impressive because it's contrasted against this startling horizon."

In the following weeks it is estimated that 2 billion people - more than half the humans alive at the time - watched the blurred black and grey TV film of the moon and listened to crackling voices speaking to them"

It is a powerful image, of humanity... its ambition; desire and unknown possibilities. combined with the sense of aloness in the vastness of space.

I enjoed the print newspaper article
Thanks 4 clippin it