Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Chrsitina Hammock Koch, woke up last Wednesday morning and were in space before their usual bedtime. The four have whirled all the way around the moon, and that would include the dark side.
These astronauts wear a spacesuit that weighs 280 lbs. before they get in it. They eat the way we do on a road trip, but for 10 days straight. They float instead of walk, and their only restroom is closed for repairs.
They named their spacecraft Integrity, representing trust, respect, candor, cooperation and humility.
Last night, there was a live video from Artemis II of their lunar fly-by. The astronauts did their best to describe coming out of the eclipse as our Moon passed in front of the Sun. They said, “Magnificent. Awesome. Incredible. Stunning. Unreal.” Then Wiseman said, “We just don’t have the words. It’s beyond words.”
This is what humans are capable of – being so touched by other worlds that they don’t know how to express it.
Sharing rather than threatening.