Planetary Awareness
A Documentary Series About The Overview Effect
The astronauts share profound experiences from seeing earth in space and it can radically change our paradigm about life on earth. Join us as we explore how these experiences can change our perspective about the challenges we face like climate change, sustainability, and humanitarian issues.
"We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."
- Bill Anders (Apollo Astronaut)
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty."
- Edgar Mitchell (Apollo Astronaut)
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Addressing the Issues
Climate Change
"Our atmosphere connects us all. What happens in Africa affects North America. What happens in North America affects Asia."
- Dan Barry, American Astronaut
Sustainability
"We are citizens of space, and stewards of Earth. We need to take actions to build [a] global climate alliance in order to protect our environment."
- Soichi Noguchi, Japanese Astronaut
Featuring Interviews
Ron Garan
"From space, I saw Earth not as a collection of nations, but as a single entity with one destiny."
- Ron Garan, ISS Astronaut
Sandy Magnus
"People are people and we are all different, skin color, country of origin, religious belief, lifestyle, whatever. We're all simply people."
- Sandy Magnus, ISS Astronaut
Doug Wheelock
"I craved smelling fresh cut grass and the sounds of birds chirping in the trees and animals barking. It was amazing to me the things I missed and how acute those senses are when you first come home."
- Doug Wheelock, ISS Astronaut
Nicole Stott
"You don't have to be a parent
to understand. We all are guardians of
the future"
- Nicole Stott, ISS Astronaut
Michael Lopez-Alegria
"All of us astronauts who have experienced the overview effect wish there would be no more war, no more hunger, and no more disease... that we all become a little more tolerant and understand each other a little better."
- Micheal Lopez-Alegria, ISS Astronaut
Barbara Marx-Hubbard
"In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime."
- Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Best-Selling Author