The Apollo missions were conceived as a demonstration of the superior power and precision of our strategic missiles.
But a funny thing happened to us on the way to the moon. We looked homeward and discovered another world- our own. For the first time, we inhabitants of Earth could step back and see it as it really is- one world, indivisible, and kind of small in the cosmic context.
Whatever the reason we first mustered the enormous resources required for the Apollo program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the earth is its clear and luminous dividend- the unexpected gift of the Apollo. A project conceived in deadly competition made us recognize our community.
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