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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 look so petty.  You want to grab a politician by the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'

--edgar mitchell, apollo 14 astronaut