NOVA

When the earth came up in Earthrise, I didn't even have a light meter. I just started clicking away, and changing the f stops, and fortunately one of the pictures came out. That picture is probably the picture of the century. We thought we were going to study the moon. No, we went to the moon, we learned a lot about the moon, but most of all we learned about a new way to look at the earth. The sense of isolation and closeness of our humanity, I wish more people would focus on it. Having that unifying experience, I think, was a very profound and moving moment for people on earth. To realize we're all on this one space ship together, we'd better start taking care of it. Before all this, seeing our home planet as it really is and everything else. The rocket, the computer, leaving earth, had only been dreamed of. In December 1968, it became forever real on Apollo 8. This was the mission that all of that happened.