How far we’ve come!
How much we’ve seen!
To imagine this is a place
Where humanity has been!
It’s almost too much
I can hardly believe
That the moon was a goal
We could really achieve
Infinite God
Finite space
Viewing Earth
Across the moonscape
This is part of my “Inspired by Space” Series.
Title: First View of Earth from Moon
Description: The world’s first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon.
Image Number: SPD-SLRSY-1757
Date: August 23, 1966
In 2010, I was laid off from my job as a Geography teacher with the East St. Louis Public School District. That week, I started writing a book that I entitled Something I’m Writing. I’ll explain the title for now, but for now, I thought I’d just show you the outline I’m going to be working from. I have abandoned much of what I initially wrote, so this will be, in essence, a whole new book.