Mars calling humans
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronauts on the first manned mission to the Moon took a snapshot from space of the Earth.
Emerging out of a black, black sky, with swirls of white and blue, our planet looked like a marble, the kind children play with. From so far away, it also appeared vulnerable: as much eggshell as solid sphere. As Jim Lovell, one of the men on board, commented: “The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realise just what you have back there on Earth.”
Typing away on a rainy day such as this, as workers dribble past in suits, umbrellas up, faces down against the wind, it isn’t always easy to look at the
