Relativity As Told By An Astronaut

Earth as seen from the Moon, taken during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."

~Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut,

People Magazine, 8 April, 1974