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The overview effect:

space exploration and human evolution
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998 - Technology & Engineering - 314 pages
Using interviews with and writings by 30 astronauts and cosmonauts, Frank White shows how experiences such as circling the Earth every 90 minutes and viewing it from the moon have profoundly affected our space travelers' perceptions of themselves, their world, and the future. He shows how the rest of us, who have participated imaginatively in these great adventures, have also been affected psychologically by them.

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Comparisons to the establishment of the American Frontier & the Founding Fathers made me a little uncomfortable while reading this, reading as over-patriotic and trite. Overall, however, I loved the ... Read full review

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Frank White wrote The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution about how people feel about looking at the Earth from Space. ...
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The Overview Effect: The Impact of Space Exploration on the ...
The overview effect: Space exploration and human evolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. World book encyclopedia. (1989). (Vol. 11, p. 197). ...
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“Overview Effect” « The National Space Society of Phoenix
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