Astronaut recalls ‘World in my window’ view

  • 5 years ago
On their journey to the Moon, the Apollo 11 crew had to rotate their spaceship continuously so that one side didn’t “barbecue” in the Sun while the other froze — meaning they couldn’t see their destination until they were almost upon it.

But as breathtaking as this new world was, it paled in comparison to what they saw on the other side: a “fragile” blue marble set against the inky black of the universe, an image that has haunted astronaut Michael Collins ever since.

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