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by throwamon 1328 days ago
If you only send to space people whose dream already was to go to space, of course they're going to have a strong reaction when they do. That's like observing that Olympic athletes have strong reactions when they receive the gold medal and calling it "the Olympics effect".
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I think you're wrong. Because otherwise articles like these would be either unlikely to exist, or we have much more spacers than it is known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

Edit: I meant the wiki, not the linked one.