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Washington Post: "Discover what it’s like to be an astronaut"

1/6/2015

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... “You can spend all day and all night just looking at the planet as it goes by,” Fincke says. “After a while, I could tell what ocean we were over just by its color. Each desert has its own hue and tint.” 
...“I met Mike Fincke in 2005, and he told me about this transformative experience he had seeing Earth from space,” Williams says. “I thought, ‘How can I simulate this feeling for people who can’t yet go to space?’ ”

That feeling is known as “the overview effect,” a gut-level appreciation for the beauty and fragility of our home planet. Seeing clouds and dust storms swirl across continents and watching cities light up at night, gives you a sense of Earth as a single, living thing, astronauts say. Then there’s the atmosphere, that thin, pink line separating us from instant death.

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Sadie Dingfelder

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