Edgar Mitchell (6th man on moon) dies

[Shaker]

At 85 he had a good long innings; what's particularly interesting to me is how transformative the experience of seeing Earth from the moon was for him, even if it did lead him down some ultimately peculiar avenues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35506000

Mr Mitchell brought home more than just Moonrock, telling reporters in the days after the mission that he said he had experienced an "epiphany" in space and returned with "an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness".

Years later he wrote in his autobiography: "It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me."

Mr Mitchell left Nasa in 1972 and set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which aimed to support "individual and collective transformation through consciousness research".

In 1974, he described his lunar epiphany to the New York Times: "It was a sense of the Earth being in critical condition, a recognition of the massive insanity which had led man into deeper and deeper crises on the planet.

[Rhiannon]

I watch very few films, but one of my favourites is In The Shadow of the Moon. I don't think it remotely surprising that such an awesome (to use the word the old fashioned way) experience can produce this kind of mind-blowing spiritual experience. It must actually have been quite lonely for him in a way, to have physically seen how small and fragile we are and to spend his life trying to communicate that to people who could only imagine it.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I'm surprised they let him go to the moon with a name like Edgar.......Not really spacey enough.....didn't they have names like Buzz etc.

[Shaker]

I'm surprised they let him go to the moon with a name like Edgar.......Not really spacey enough.....didn't they have names like Buzz etc.

Only one did - the other two members of the Apollo 11 team were called Neil and Mike, remember.

[Nearly Sane]

Only one did - the other two members of the Apollo 11 team were called Neil and Mike, remember.

and even he didn't, being an Edwin

[Shaker]

I watch very few films, but one of my favourites is In The Shadow of the Moon. I don't think it remotely surprising that such an awesome (to use the word the old fashioned way) experience can produce this kind of mind-blowing spiritual experience. It must actually have been quite lonely for him in a way, to have physically seen how small and fragile we are and to spend his life trying to communicate that to people who could only imagine it.

It's been said that the famous photo of the Earth known for good reason as The Blue Marble did more for ecological and environmental awareness than anything else, because it was the first time in human history that the planet had been seen from the outside as a frail, fragile entity hanging in utter blackness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble

[Shaker]

and even he didn't, being an Edwin

Very true.

So there you go, Vlad - Neil, Edwin and Michael. Sounds more like a darts team in the local boozer.

[Sassy]

I could never forget NEIL ARMSTRONG sat next to him in school and my nieces ex partner has the same name.
Alot of them about but none of the others been as far as the moon...


The other astronauts who trained were not so lucky were they...

http://aplanetruth.info/2015/03/31/24-why-did-so-many-apollo-astronots-die-mysterious-deaths-in-just-three-years-time/

He was lucky and blessed to have lived so long...
What does it matter now? It doesn't it will just go down in history and no one will remember it, will they?