Neil Armstrong, After His First Moon Walk

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"It suddenly struck me that the tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."  – Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, photographed by Buzz Aldrin after the completion of the first ever lunar EVA.

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(Image Credit: Public domain image released by NASA.)