Andy Thomas: Adelaide's own astronaut
Seeing the Earth from space “turns you into an environmentalist”, former NASA astronaut Andy Thomas says. Thomas, a native Adelaidean, flew four space missions, spending about six months in space, much of it on Russia’s Mir space station. He describes what it’s like to get such a different perspective – it’s been dubbed the “Overview Effect”. “You get an appreciation of the finite resources represented by the Earth,” he says. “I remember one day I was flying and there were some fires burning in Central America, in Nicaragua. They use slash and burn farming practices ther...
Source: cosmosmagazine.com