“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.”
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- Wikiquote: Alan Shepard
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Shepard, Alan. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Alan Shepard. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard
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