I am deeply, powerfully moved by this image, shared from the crew of Artemis II just before they lost communications while passing around the Moon's dark side. Earth Day came a little early this year.
This solar eclipse picture is almost too much to comprehend really. That's the Moon blocking out the Sun in a way that we never get to experience on Earth. And yes, they still had to wear their cardboard eclipse glasses!
But to me, even more important, is what one of the astronauts said in their first words sent back to Houston Control when they regained communications with Houston Control:
"We will always choose Earth," Christina Koch, a mission specialist on Artemis II, said once the crew members regained communications. "We will always choose each other."
Could there be a greater, more cosmically measured distance between those beautiful, inspiring words of humanity than those offered up almost simultaneously by our deranged madman president threatening that "a whole civilization will die tonight"? Here's hoping...and all prayers and good thoughts offered up that the Earth that the Artemis II crew eventually returns to does not include the aftermath of such a catastrophic event.
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