STP155 - Space Philosophy, The Overview Effect and Mass Migration Off Of Planet Earth - with Frank White

This week we talk to Frank White, the space philosopher who first coined the term the ‘overview effect’ which describes the experience astronauts get when they see Earth from space.

Frank is the author of a number of incredible books but his best known work is called “The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution” - the fourth edition was publishing in 2019 and features interviews with 31 astronauts.

Frank White:
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Overview Movie:

What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
NASA InSight Study Finds Mars Is Spinning Faster:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9452/nasa-insight-study-finds-mars-is-spinning-faster/?site=insight

NASA Is Asking The Public For Help To Peep Uranus:
https://hothardware.com/news/nasa-asking-for-help-to-peep-uranus

Virgin Galactic launches 1st mother-daughter team and 1st Olympian to space on 2nd commercial flight:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-galactic02-launch-success

Russia launches Luna-25 moon lander, its 1st lunar probe in 47 years:
https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-moon-mission-launch-success

Russian cosmonaut becomes first to ride European robotic arm on ISS spacewalk:
https://www.space.com/iss-spacewalk-russian-robotic-arm-ride-august-2023

Cosmonaut Alexander Viktorenko, who flew to Mir space station four times, dies at 76
https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-alexander-viktorenko-obituary

Image Credits: Space and Things Podcast

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Emily Carney

A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.

In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/  

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Dave Giles

Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

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