
In 1971, Edgar Mitchell piloted Apollo 14 to the moon, becoming the sixth man to walk on its surface.
But it was the journey home that changed him most.
Through the window, Earth appeared small, fragile, and suspended in black.
The divisions below seemed to dissolve, replaced by a profound awareness of unity—what would later be called the overview effect.
“You see things with your eyes,” Mitchell said, “but you experience them emotionally, as if in ecstasy… a sense of total oneness. The molecules in our bodies and in the spacecraft were forged in ancient stars. We’re all stardust.”

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