astronaut how view of the earth for the first time changed him
For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet. â Frank Borman, Apollo 8, press reports, 10 January 1969. The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated meâa small disk, 240,000 miles away. It was hard to think that that little thing held so many problems, so many frustrations. Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don't show from that distance.