Word: apollos
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...BEFORE Apollo 15 carried him to the moon in July 1971, Astronaut Worden had never been particularly introspective. Poetry had had no place in his life; he rarely read any, and he had never written a line. But something happened to Worden as he orbited the moon alone in the command ship Endeavor while his crewmates explored the lunar surface. Since his return, he has been moved to put his feelings about space flight into verse, some of it deeply personal and soul searching. Worden's new interest is only one example of an extraordinary postflight phenomenon. In spite...
Deeply Moved. Schweickart himself is a striking example of what might be called the Lunar Effect. Before the flight he was totally committed to his life as an astronaut. But as he floated outside Apollo 9 on his space walk 160 miles above the earth, he was overwhelmed by emotion. "I completely lost my identity as an American astronaut," he says. "I felt a part of everyone and everything sweeping past me below." Now he spends long hours at a Houston clinic for drug addicts, takes part in a volunteer telephone-counseling service for troubled youngsters, and is involved...
...Something happens to you out there," explains Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell. As a result of what happened to him, he has since quit the space program, divorced his wife and begun to devote himself full-time to an unlikely pursuit for an M.I.T. graduate: research into extrasensory perception (ESP), which he feels may help people round the world to achieve greater "intuitive" communication...
Walking on the moon was a religious experience for Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, who was "deeply moved by the beauty of the lunar mountains and felt the presence of God." A month after his return, he says, "I knew that God had called me to his service." He quit the astronaut program, dubbed himself the "moon missionary," and became a lay preacher on the Southern Baptist evangelical circuit...
While he was peering out of the hatch of Apollo 16 onto the lunar landscape, Charles Duke recalls, "I was overwhelmed by the certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of God." When he looked at his fresh footprints in the almost ageless lunar dust, "I just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life." Even the sometimes brittle Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, admits that he has changed: "I was a rotten s.o.b. before I left. Now I'm just an s.o.b...