By the way, the tribute to the fictional retired astronaut came at a time of the loss of a real astronaut - Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon and the last member of the Apollo 14 crew. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden stated the following:
Edgar spoke poetically about seeing our home planet from the moon saying: ‘Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth … home.’Car commercials cannot match the stories of real heroes.
