We've had another global inoculation of the Overview Effect.

We're the first species to look back on our planet from beyond it.

The power of seeing Earth in the vast darkness of space changes history.

Healing our planet might seem like a moonshot, but the Artemis II crew reminded us we can do it with joy.

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing. Homo sapiens, all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like, we're all one people." ~ astronaut Victor Glover

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing. Homo sapiens, all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like, we're all one people." ~ astronaut Victor Glover

"Humans have not evolved to see what we are seeing. It's hard to describe. It's amazing!" ~ astronaut Reid Wiseman

"Humans have not evolved to see what we are seeing. It's hard to describe. It's amazing!" ~ astronaut Reid Wiseman

Across the billions of years that life has existed on Earth, we are the very first species to look back on our planet from beyond it. And that experience, humanity seeing Earth hanging in the great, vast blackness of space, has changed our own humanity, our own history.

Earthrise has long been considered the world's most famous photograph: It helped inspire the world's environmental movement along with the enormous outpouring of people on the first Earth Day in 1970—20 million Americans participated and demonstrated. By the end of that year, the Environmental Protection Agency had been created, along with the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National........

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