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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

Topics: About Compulsion Consciousness Develop Dissatisfaction Global Instant Intense International Looks Moon Orientation Out People Petty Politics Something State World You

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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Been Enough Fact Happen Phenomenon Planet Privileged Real Visited Ufo

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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Aircraft Aviation Back Behind Being Certainly Coming Duty End Even Had Humans Military October Pacific Plans Professional Realized Really Right Robot Sea South Though Up Would

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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: About Apollo Be Careful Be The First Careful Everything First Getting Had Mission Moon Our Science Time

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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Again Back Base Belt Get Go Going Gravity Having Lot Mars Moon Much Offer Out Resource Think Trying Use Value

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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Different Different Types First Get Mars Need Types Wrote 1960S

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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Because Burn Capable Community Eventually Flight Future Going Nations Need Off Our Out Planet Situation Sometime Space Sun Sustainable

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My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Admit Am Benevolent Democratic Dictator Home Male Me Myself Office Pig Sort Tells Think Very Wife I Think I Am

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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Alteration Consciousness Continue Death Form Life May Simply Transition

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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: Available Back Beings Call Consciousness End Felt Field Human Human Beings Just Looking Material Other Our Our Planet Perceiving Person Planet Saw Spectrum State Universe Way Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: September 17th, 1930

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