Cold War: "Pause A Moment"

• Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 1968 on Christmas Eve: 'The vast loneliness up here of the Moon is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth'
• The Earth from space is a Grand Oasis in this big vastness
• The Earth really is special
• Photographs from the Apollo missions

  • The Crescent Earth rise
  • The Blue Marble
• The photographs from the Apollo missions reshaped how we see the Earth and ourselves
• The Ingenuity that put men on the moon gave birth to technologies that we all use today
• A final Sonic Moon above the South Pacific signaled the end to the Apollo program


  19th of December 1972
• The Blue Marble photograph became the most reproduced image in human history
• The Blue Marble photograph was embraced by everyone from non-government organizations working in a developing world to the environmental movement seeking protecting the planet
• Earthrise captured by Bill Anders on Christmas Eve 68 prompted many people into thinking very differently about our home planet
• Archibald nicholish: 'On our way to the Moon we discovered the Earth'
• The messages of peace and better environmental stewardship from those space shots sometimes feel forgotten
• The technological boost that the Space Race provided has changed the course of human history in Far More profound ways than anyone could ever have predicted
• Today's mobile phone technology Wi-Fi equipment iPads and so on are all a result of the fact that the United States did this high-tech thing
• Today's population over half of whom weren't even born where Apollo 17 reached the hoot use these inventions to connect and communicate with each other freely and without a thought of geographical or cultural differences
• The gifts of the Apollo missions continue to Ripple down through the decades and they still have the power to unite and Inspire us
• Buzz Aldrin on the 50th anniversary of the moonshot: 'It took three days to get to the moon, three to gain, three days to get back. 50 years ago they were ready to come home looking forward to the Splashdown but what they didn't know was that Unity on Earth from The Landing was probably the big event in a sense while they were out there they actually missed it'
• Don't miss the beauty, the Wonder, the awe, the progress, the wonders of this world in which we live