In the Shadow of the Moon
This is a wonderful movie, put together by some Aussie, interviewing (and I mean *really in-depth interviewing) most of the small number of humans who have been to the moon.
I particularly liked this quote. It was beautifully put together in the film, and the emotion in Mitchell's voice added heaps, but I think it's still pretty special just to read the words. I thoroughly recommend the movie. Here it is: -
"The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window every two minutes - the Earth, the Moon, the sun, and a whole 360 degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful overwhelming experience.
And suddenly I realised that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, and the molecules in the body of my partners were prototyped and manufactured in some ancient generation of stars.
And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness, it wasn't "them and us", it was "that's me, that's all of it, it's ... it's one thing". And it was accompanied by an ecstasy, a sense of "oh my god, wow, yes!"
An insight.
An epiphany."
EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14 mission.
I particularly liked this quote. It was beautifully put together in the film, and the emotion in Mitchell's voice added heaps, but I think it's still pretty special just to read the words. I thoroughly recommend the movie. Here it is: -
"The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window every two minutes - the Earth, the Moon, the sun, and a whole 360 degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful overwhelming experience.
And suddenly I realised that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, and the molecules in the body of my partners were prototyped and manufactured in some ancient generation of stars.
And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness, it wasn't "them and us", it was "that's me, that's all of it, it's ... it's one thing". And it was accompanied by an ecstasy, a sense of "oh my god, wow, yes!"
An insight.
An epiphany."
EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14 mission.