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Can Astronaut Thinking Heal America at Last? Copy link By Leslie Guttman Copy link By Leslie Guttman January28, 2021 Author Frank White coined the term the Overview Effect to describe the change in many astronauts’ worldview after viewing Earth from space, prompting them to envision a more harmonious world. Though it languished for years, the idea is finally gaining traction with the promise of private space travel and hopelessly divided societies. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon and the first to tag it with graffiti. He wrote his daughter’s initia...

In 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 Space Probe took a photo of Planet Earth at six billion kilometers away. This photo inspired scientist Carl Sagan’s book “Pale Blue Dot” in which he wrote: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. And when we view our home from outer space we experience a cognitive shift in awareness—which is well documented as “the Overview Effect.” From space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary soc...

Escapist but humanistic, believing that once people get to space they'll come back with renewed enthusiasm to try to tackle what's happening on this planet. that's a much different outlook it seems. >> yeah, well so exactly. i mean, it is interesting to hear branson compare what elon musk is trying to do with what virgin galactic is trying to do. he's very complimentary towards musk and after musk launched the falcon heavy, branson went on television and said how impressive that was and he hoped he could quote upstage that one but acknowledged like you said, that they were sort of using space ...

Astronaut leeland. his new directive is to commercialize space exploration. what do you think of it? >> i think it's a great thing. i mean, going back to the moon, and then easing the regulations so that more people, more companies can get to space with maybe want to commercial ize low-earth orbit space station. i think for more people getting a chance to go to space, they'll have this overview effect i had, looking back at the planet, going around every 90 minutes, seeing a sun rise and sunset every 45, it changed the way i think about other people and living on the space station with russian...

Scott, let me ask you this, one o ft thing of the things you and i talked about last year is when you're in space, for anybody who looks back at earth, you know, in the political environment we're in, where the world seems to divided and we weaponized culture in the way we have, being up in space gives you a different view of how thin things might work on >> it gives you a different perspective. some astronauts refer to it as this overview effect or or tbit perspective. you see this beautiful planet and realize how lucky we are to have this place we call home. yet, the news that comes off eart...