NASA astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited images of impact craters and ridges
Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion they felt while soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.
Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule windows, are those of the Earth rising from behind the moon, a solar eclipse and parts of the 590-mile (950km) wide Orientale impact basin that have never been observed with the naked eye.
Further images are expected to shed light on the brown, green and orange hues the astronauts reported on the greyish landscape, and possibly faint layers of moondust that may have been visible during the Earthrise.
It was really hard for me to listen to them speak… Idk it felt to me like they were trying really hard to “sound” a certain way, I don’t quite know how to describe it. Like they knew this was a media event and they’re “supposed” to be inspirational and enthusiastic and all that, and trying really hard to fulfill that objective.
I mean they probably are very enthusiastic and moved by the experience, but still, it felt very fake to me in some way.
Maybe this is just my personal biases, but I don’t think it is. It kind of turned me off the whole thing. I felt like I wasn’t listening to people anymore but an agenda/propaganda, listening to programmed machines.
Tempering emotions easily is a preferred trait in an astronaut
That’s not really it imo, I’m also extremely good at tempering my emotions, but the question is when do you want to do it. If there’s an emergency and panic would cause injury or death, tempering your emotions is extremely useful. If you’re just casually speaking about an experience, not so much.
But I agree that it is extremely likely they were selected particularly for what I noticed here.
Got the same vibe
Seeing such beauty when things back on earth feel so wrong, it must be a confusing feeling
reminds me of middle school
One of the few useful things the US is currently doing. At least until Agent Orangutan is removed.
The kinds of emotions and experiences that can only be imagined by the overwhelming majority of every human that has ever existed until very recently. Sights and accomplishments, discoveries and relics our shared ancestors could have only ever dreamed of.
A powerful reminder that humanity is still capable of achieving previously impossible feats when we seek to understand, instead of destroy. When we strive to push the boundaries of our collective capabilities, rather than focusing on diminishing the capabilities of others. When we work together, and don’t arbitrarily divide ourselves apart. When we, unfortunately scarcely, recognize that we are all just a fraction of a mote of dust on that otherwise insignificant pale blue dot in the distance.
I mean they literally did the same thing and more in the 1960s… We barely even had computers then! This isn’t that impressive.
I feel like we have more important things to do back on earth than spending trillions on a space empire on the moon that will exclusively benefit billionaires… But that’s what you get when you have a world run buy billionaires.
I would argue that what has been accomplished with the Artemis missions so far has been a parallel evolution to Apollo, and not any kind of competition.
Of course technology has advanced since the late 1960s and 1970s. But the challenges of traveling safely to the moon and back again as humans are still just as treacherous. Doing something that has never been done before in the history of humanity is incredibly impressive. Doing it repeatedly, decades apart, with vastly different people and technology proves that we can continue to accomplish this task and perhaps beyond. That is equally impressive in my book.
The innovations created by the needs of space travel have regularly and constantly improved our everyday lives. There are absolutely more important things to focus on at home, but for some reason we tend to focus on the destructive actions, rather than the constructive alternatives. Space travel by public agencies like NASA have historically been a unifying force that have consistently driven positive technologies to the human species, and not just the privileged few.
The title made me think it was overwhelming panic and anxiety as they just completely missed the Moon orbit…
They’re looking for the next exit ramp but GPS signaling is a bit spotty.
“Whelp, Mars it is”
When your miss your exit and the next one is in 20 km.
Ohhh. Ridges
Cute, Venn diagrams!
And moondust.
I hope they’re ready to jettison the mad stacks.
Earthrise 👀💕
Did they hear the music?
