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Jane Poynter on Space Travel as a Pathway to Shifting Perspectives

At a Distance

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The Importance of Looking at and Looking From Space

I wanted to ask you about just the simple act of looking and specifically looking at and looking from space. The James Webb telescope images released this year have been extraordinary. What impact do you think these images or this visual perspective has on the human psyche, both short term and long? How are you thinking about all of this? Yeah. I mean, everything is doing multiple jobs at the same time, which is what makes it such kind of a narrative thing.

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