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.