“The same rocket technology that delivers nuclear warheads has also taken us peacefully into space… From that perspective, we see our earth as it really is � a small and fragile and beautiful blue globe, the only home we have.”

— President Jimmy Carter, January 14, 1981 (six days before leaving office)

(Quoted in Past Farewells: Presidents’ Words Have Run From Poignant to Prophetic), from today’s New York Times)

Wow.