Saturday, April 21, 2007

Earth from afar

Astronauts recall view before Earth Day (AP)

This photo released by NASA shows a sunburst view of the Space Shuttle's robot arm over a cloudy Earth taken June 1,1996, during the flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center)AP - When astronauts return from space, what they talk about isn't the brute force of the rocket launch or the exhilaration of zero gravity — it's the view. And it's mankind's rarest view of all, Earth from afar.


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