I looked up overhead and here was this black sky and this blue Earth. All hits you at that point,"I'am not on the planet anymore." And every astronaut who has flown has come back and said the same thing. As you circle the Earth you do not see natural borders and boundaries that separate the countries. And all of the wars and the angst and the strife that tear this planet apart seem so insignificant from that view.___Marsha Ivins