Frank White

Author, The Overview Effect

Human Space Program

Author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, the 1987 book that named the shift astronauts describe when they see Earth from space, and a framework space psychology still works from. Founder of the Human Space Program and convener of the Overview Round Table. Harvard College, then Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; his books span space, climate and artificial intelligence, including work with Isaac Asimov. He taught Introduction to Space Studies at Harvard Extension School and is bringing that course, and an Overview Effect course, to the Stardust platform. He joins Stardust 2026 on the stream.

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