NAMES IN THE NEWS : Earth in Trouble: Ex-Astronaut
tt Carpenter, one of America’s first astronauts, says the United States needs to embark on a new space mission--to the planet Earth.
The astronaut-aquanaut told a Hastings College audience Monday that if the world doesn’t take action soon to preserve the forests, air, streams and oceans of “spaceship Earth,” life as we know it will not survive.
Carpenter said viewing Earth from the window of his spacecraft in 1962 allowed him to see the grand order of the universe and the “excruciating beauty but extreme fragility” of the planet.
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