Overview Effect

aka The View from Above

…When the four astronauts aboard Artemis II, currently en route to the Moon, splash down into warm Pacific waters next week, chances are they will not be the same people they were when they left ten days earlier. In the half century or so that humans have ventured into space, a curious phenomenon has emerged. It's known as the Overview Effect, and it has profound implications. Simply put: seeing Earth, that "pale blue dot," as Carl Sagan called it, from space changes a person

The Overview Effect was first identified by researcher Frank White in the 1980s. While interviewing astronauts, he found many had undergone "truly transformative experiences involving senses of wonder and awe, unity with nature, transcendence and universal brotherhood." 

…Eric Weiner 

https://open.substack.com/pub/asenseofwander/p/the-overview-effect?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios