Astronaut, Scientist, Author
Previously Aired On: June 12, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
If Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a scientist, naval officer, astronaut, and author. He is best known for his life-changing experience seeing the planet Earth from space on his Apollo XIV mission in 1971. He was the sixth man to walk on the moon.
Dr. Mitchell is the founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a nonprofit organization sponsoring research on the nature of consciousness. He is also the cofounder of the Association of Space Explorers. Both are educational organizations developed to provide new understanding of the human condition in the epoch of space exploration. He lectures regularly on cosmology, human potential, and the implications of recent discoveries in science as they affect our individual lives.
He is the author of Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), a major reference book, and The Way of the Explorer (Putnam, 1996).
This month, NASA presented the Ambassador of Exploration Award to Dr. Mitchell for his involvement in the Apollo space program. Mitchell was the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 14 moon mission, Jan. 31 to Feb. 9, 1971. Crewmates Alan Shepherd and Stuart Roosa also participated in the third lunar landing. The team collected more than 100 pounds of lunar samples during their record setting 33 hours on the moon’s surface.
“On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.”
“We went to the moon as technicians, we returned humanitarians.”
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June 12th, 2007
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