Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper and Phyllis that the message for the day should come from astronaut Jim Lovell as he celebrates his 96th birthday with the following comment:
“We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you’ve ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy living here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.”
– Jim Lovell
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