Contested Global Visions

Cosgrove's section discussing the Apollo photographs was perhaps my favorite reading thus far. The mere thought of being able to look down on Earth for the first time is just so exciting and would definitely make me feel a surge of emotions. I thought that a great quote by Borman from this reading was, "When you're finally up at the moon looking back at earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people." I think this is really interesting because this is a time period when nationalism is very high with the race for aerospace advancements. Even if there is also a mixed sense of cosmopolitanism within that, countries like the US and the USSR are still very competitive, and wars and racism are still very much prevalent. For someone to look down and see us just as little specks on another little specks, there just seems to be so little need for this disunity. We were all born in the same place and we'll all die in the same place a few years after that. We're so limited with our time, so there must be a way for all of us on Earth to learn to live with one another for the short time that we are around.