Science and Exploration

The Overview Effect at Home: Exploring Otherworldly Terrain With Space Tourists on Earth

By Leonard David
SpaceRef
October 20, 2023
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The Overview Effect at Home: Exploring Otherworldly Terrain With Space Tourists on Earth
Space-like landscapes here on Earth mimic landforms found elsewhere in the Solar System.
Image credit: Planex/Kirby Runyon.

“Capsule is turning around. Oh, that view is tremendous.”

This comment about the Earth came from space over 6 decades ago, in February 1962. Voiced by John Glenn, America’s first person to circuit the , that off-Earth outlook has now been uttered by hundreds of people hurled high above the planet on both suborbital and orbital treks.

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Leonard David

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration - all published by the National Geographic Society.