Nasa images of ufo1/23/2024 ![]() On my spacewalk, I thought about us being small and insignificant – that’s what you naturally think when you see Earth as this tiny oasis of life in a vast universe. I’ve always been somebody who tries to keep things in perspective but going into space changes your outlook and thoughts about mortality, about spirituality. You go from the vastness of space to these claustrophobic structures in which we have to seal ourselves in order to survive out there.Īpollo 17, 13 December 1972 Eugene Cernan’s picture of Harrison Schmitt peering into a vast crater. I love the photographs of the astronauts in the capsule, too. It was amazing to have that as my evening view. It became part of my evening routine to go to the cupola window and look out at Earth while I was brushing my teeth. Often I’d be the last one up, switching off the lights. The space station can be quite a busy place with all the radios and cameras on, and six or seven of us on it. A couple of big icebergs floating around in the South Atlantic. I remember seeing an incredible algae bloom in the Black Sea. Auroras, because they are spectacular and sometimes would stretch up to the space station and we’d be kind of flying through them. There were a few things we’d always call one another over to see. ![]() It isn’t yellow like we see it, or hazy – Earth’s atmosphere makes it look like that.Īpollo 9, 6 March 1969 David Scott reflected back at himself in Russell Schweickart’s visor. The sun’s light is a nuclear fusion reaction and the purest white in the universe. There’s a picture of Commander Wally Schirra on Apollo 7 and the light hitting him is the whitest you’ll ever see. I love seeing it coming through the capsule window and striking the astronauts’ faces. When I look at these remastered images of the Apollo missions, I’m reminded of what I experienced during my six months in space. The incredible engineering accomplishment that Apollo 11 represented opened me to the potential that we could do anything. I remember seeing grainy images of Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface. My mum loved space, so we watched all the space shuttle launches on television together. I was born in 1972 into a world where humans had walked on the moon. ![]() Apollo 11, 21 July 1969 Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin moments after their historic moonwalk.
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