The mission marked the first time humans could see the whole of the planet at once and ‘see the Earth as it really is’
Like its cousin, 1848, in which Europe was convulsed with revolution, 1968 was a year of tumult. It was the year of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, the murder of the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the rioting that followed in America’s cities, the murder two months later of Robert F Kennedy, the student riots in Paris and strikes in France, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the “Prague Spring,” the youth protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the hundreds of deaths in Mexico City at Tlatelolco Square just before the Olympics.
Yet if 1968 witnessed too numerous examples of the smallness of humanity or at least of individual humans, the year would close from the void of outer space with a resounding proof of our smallness in the universe – and, ironically, serve as a unifying vision and a force for good.
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