![]() Astronauts in government space programs were also kept pretty busy by ground control – so busy that the crew on NASA’s Skylab supposedly mutinied at one point – and had little free time for contemplating Earth. It wasn’t something that had been much detailed often what was emphasised was the harrowing, difficult side to their jobs as astronauts, to bolster the reputation of the profession at a time when the Space Age’s primary commodity was national prestige. He stumbled upon several astronauts’ descriptions of how they’d felt while in space, looking back at Earth. In the early 1980s, the American writer Frank White, a long-time fan of space exploration, was thinking about what it would be like for future space settlers to see Earth hanging in their sky, day after day, and whether that sight would ever become routine. ![]() The myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs ![]()
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