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I really thought that a group that looks out to the stars and knows what the earth really is compared to the rest of the Universe would be more accepting of the other people on this small chunk of rock and accept that we are all on spaceship earth together.
Message from the astronauts on ISS.
There are three astronauts aboard the International Space Station right now: Russian station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineers Michael Barratt of NASA and Koichi Wakata of Japan. Their Expedition 19 mission began in late March.
While his nearly seven-month mission is just beginning, Barratt said the impact of seeing his native planet far below has already had an impact.
"There's no doubt, when you look down at the Earth from here, you're just overwhelmed by how beautiful it is," Barratt said this week, adding that two things immediately jump out. "One is how much you miss it, and two, is how much you really want to take care of it as best you can."
Magnus said that when a person gazes at the Earth, there is a sense that humanity and all life as we know it are completely dependent on a single planet and its thin atmosphere.
"It makes you think about our planet as a whole system," Magnus said. "We're all there together living together as human beings and other organisms and we have to take care of each other."
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