One of the Apollo astronauts, James B. Irwin, who landed on the moon in 1971, said of his view of the earth, "It was so far away…a little ball in the blackness of space.
James B. Irwin, l’un des astronautes d’Apollo qui alunit en 1971, raconta sa vision de la terre : "Elle était si loin…une petite boule dans l’obscurité de l’espace.