For many, traveling to the moon forever changed the way they saw the Earth. By Robert Poole July 19, 2009 'We came all this way to the moon, and yet the most significant thing we're seeing is our own home planet …” Forty years after the first moonwalk, NASA has chosen to lead its anniversary coverage with Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders' comment about the Earth. That fact alone shows how much the focus has changed since the first Space Age, when it seemed that everyone on Earth was looking outward into space.
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For the Apollo astronauts, a small world
