With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. {105}
This quote eloquently encapsulates a profound shift in human consciousness brought about by space exploration, particularly the Apollo moon missions. Before the moon walk, many religious and cultural narratives depicted the earth and heavens as separate realms — the earth as a terrestrial, often imperfect domain, and the heavens as a sacred, distant expanse where divinity resided. The "religious myth" Joseph Campbell refers to represents this deep-rooted conception that sustained many...
