A NASA astronaut had a life-changing revelation after spending 178 days on the International Space Station. Ron Garan, who launched on April 4, 2011 and returned home on September 16, 2011, completed ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling ...

When astronauts look back at Earth from space, they often describe an experience so profound that it permanently alters how they perceive life. Known as the "overview effect," this shift in ...

As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views of the illuminated lunar far side, pilot Victor Glover described the visuals as “sci-fi ...

Astronauts know about "the overview effect." Sometimes called the "orbital perspective," it's what happens to a person after being "up there." William Shatner struggled to communicate in 2021 the ...

“The moon we are looking at is not the moon you see from Earth whatsoever.” That’s how Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch described our natural satellite as the mission’s spacecraft drew closer to ...