A buoyant hour with a man who has spent more hours than practically anyone else viewing his home planet from above. The conversation ranges from the tangible benefits spun off from the space program, to the spirit of adventure, to the theological implications. EM: "It has been my experience that in the European and Asiatic countries the awesomeness of the space program and the closeness that those people feel to us as a result of that effort is significant.... They feel it was a world program, and they want to identify with that effort." WFB: "You're talking about scientists now, or the public?" EM: "No, I'm talking about the public. And they tend to feel that it has drawn them closer to us in many ways." WFB: "There's a sense of... a planetary Gemutlichkeit that derives from those spectacular shots of little old earth just suspended there?"