The Ultraview Effect: What We Can Learn from Astronauts about Awe, Humility, and Exploring the Unknown

What astronauts' extraordinary experiences of awe and humility teach us about humanity.

What is it like to stand in the shadow of Earth and the Moon and look out at the vastness of the Milky Way? To confront a view so grand it cannot be reproduced in a photo? These are the questions space anthropologist Deana L. Weibel asked as she interviewed astronauts and others in the space community. What they told her was not just surprising but also deeply moving. When gazing into star fields not ful...