#smallbluedot

People may get me wrong… it’s not about landing on the Moon, although that’s pretty darn cool, as my earlier post infers. It’s about the amazing concept that veldt apes from Olduvai Gorge managed to get their shit together and sent one of their number into the hostile vastness of space… who turned back to look at home. #lunarlandingday #vastnessofspace #bluemarble #smallbluedot #discoveredtheearth #billanders #apollo8 #apollo11 https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjMSZMlKy2/?utm_medium=tumblr

People may get me wrong… it’s not about landing on the Moon, although that’s pretty darn cool, as my earlier post infers. It’s about the amazing concept that veldt apes from Olduvai Gorge managed to get their shit together and sent one of their number into the hostile vastness of space… who turned back to look at home. #lunarlandingday #vastnessofspace #bluemarble #smallbluedot #discoveredtheearth #billanders #apollo8 #apollo11 https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjMNigBaGv/?utm_medium=tumblr

- R Stevens

Not sure about you but this made me a bit emotional. #SmallBlueDot it made me re-realize the enormity and minutia that is us, our planet, and our lives. To realize that you are infinitely important while being simultaneously insignificant is scary yet freeing. I know to some of you reading this it must sound like I'm losing my mind but to the contrary I am finding it along with so much more. And only a few of you will be able to understand that and see it for what it is. #TheVoyagerMission #SpaceTravel #Nasa #TheWorldAroundMe #StarTravel #PlanetEarth #Cosmos @nasa (at Planet Earth)