Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.

Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.

Image: NASA

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering…every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
— Carl Sagan

Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

@brouhaha bold.

Oh for sure. I want to build a quantum mineral extractor in the asteroid belt.