1968 was the first time humanity left earth for another destination. Borman, Lovell and Anders orbited the moon in Apollo 8 and then came home. And a year later Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Of the 3.5 billion people that were on earth at the time, almost none of them would have had an inkling about how important those events would be for the future of humanity. But then, they also had no idea that by the year 2000 the population of the world would be 6.1 billion and that the predictions would be for reaching a population of 11 billion by 2100. They wouldn’t have known that, although the estimations get less certain, the high end prediction is for 35 billion by 2300. They couldn’t have guessed that in just over three hundred years there could be ten times more people on the planet than there were the first time we left it.
Who wins the space race?
Who wins the space race?
Who wins the space race?
1968 was the first time humanity left earth for another destination. Borman, Lovell and Anders orbited the moon in Apollo 8 and then came home. And a year later Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Of the 3.5 billion people that were on earth at the time, almost none of them would have had an inkling about how important those events would be for the future of humanity. But then, they also had no idea that by the year 2000 the population of the world would be 6.1 billion and that the predictions would be for reaching a population of 11 billion by 2100. They wouldn’t have known that, although the estimations get less certain, the high end prediction is for 35 billion by 2300. They couldn’t have guessed that in just over three hundred years there could be ten times more people on the planet than there were the first time we left it.