Edgar Mitchell travelled from the Earth to the Moon in January of 1971, but his trip report is straight out of 2001.
As he hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, Mitchell became engulfed by a profound sensation “a sense of universal connectedness.” He intuitively sensed that his presence, that of his fellow astronauts, and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious. The experience was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same.
Alan Bean visited the moon in 1969 and has since made at least 100 paintings, based on his memories of the trip. Some even have rhetorical questions as titles i.e. Were We Giraffes or Gazelles? Also… Hefner wrote a song about him!