What Space Travel Taught Us in 1968

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the Moon, but that they set eye on the Earth.”
– Norman Cousins, Congressional Hearings 1975

Michelle Murvai, an undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, prepared “Our Window into Home: A Photo Essay on the Apollo Program and the Environmental Movement” for a class assignment.

Using some of the most influential photographs ever taken, Murvai looks at the impact of the Apollo missions on the modern ecology movement. Framing her ideas around the theme for World Environment Day on June 5 – Many species. One Planet. One Future – she explores how our first views of the Earth from space shaped our concept of our planet.

View Our Window into Home: A Photo Essay on the Apollo Program and the Environmental Movement by Michelle Murvai

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