Star Crazy- Can Space Blow Your Mind?

In Chapter 3: "Star Crazy- Can Space Blow Your Mind?" it talks about how these astronauts traveled to space in the 1960's. Some of the people that had gone to space had said that it was an unbelievable feeling being away from Earth. However, NASA's concern was not that they were euphoric, but that euphoria might have overtaken good sense. The euphoria did take quite a turn because after NASA's first spacewalk, Gemini IV astronaut Ed White had never felt happier. He told the interviews that he had felt like a million dollars. His commander James McDivitt was talking to the capsule communicator Gus Grissom to try to get White back in. It took him at least 20 minutes to get back in because he was trying to get some really good pictures. If I had an opportunity to travel to space, I would have loved to do it but, at the same time, I would worry about being out there too long and running out of oxygen to breathe. If you run out of oxygen to breathe, then there wouldn't be a way for you to come back to Earth. Psychiatrist Eugene Brody spoke at the 1959 Symposium on Space Psychiatry: "Separation from the earth with all its unconscious symbolic significance for man,...might in theory at least be expected ...to produce- even in a well-selected and trained pilot- something akin to the panic of schizophrenia."  Wouldn't little things like this worry you? Reading this chapter of Packing For Mars was very interesting learning about astronauts and space. I really enjoyed reading about it all.