{"id":237267,"date":"2026-05-16T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/most-astronauts-who-spend-more-than-six-months-in-orbit-come-home-describing-the-same-shift-in-how-they-see-earth-and-even-the-ones-who-were-briefed-on-it-in-advance-say-the-actual-feeling-c"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:10:34","slug":"most-astronauts-who-spend-more-than-six-months-in-orbit-come-home-describing-the-same-shift-in-how-they-see-earth-and-even-the-ones-who-were-briefed-on-it-in-advance-say-the-actual-feeling-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/most-astronauts-who-spend-more-than-six-months-in-orbit-come-home-describing-the-same-shift-in-how-they-see-earth-and-even-the-ones-who-were-briefed-on-it-in-advance-say-the-actual-feeling-c","title":{"rendered":"Most astronauts who spend more than six months in orbit come home describing the same shift in how they see Earth \u2014 and even the ones who were briefed on it in advance say the actual feeling caught them off guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-astronauts-who-spend-more-than-six-months-in-orbit-come-home-describing-the-same-shift-in-how-they-see-earth-and-even-the-ones-who-were-briefed-on-it-in-advance-say-the-actual-feeling-c.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has a name. The author and space philosopher Frank White coined the phrase \u201cthe Overview Effect\u201d after reflecting on what it would mean for people to see Earth from space as part of daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon has a name. The author and space philosopher Frank White coined the phrase \u201cthe Overview Effect\u201d after reflecting on what it would mean for people to see Earth from space as part of daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}