CourtCantrell will not complyWatching coverage of Artemis II's return. Communications blackout due to heat has begun. I didn't expect to feel anxious about this, but here we are.
#ArtemisII
#Artemis2
#ArtemisMission
#ArtemisReturn
#OrionReturn
#NASA
Less than a minute to comms return. 🤞🤞🤞
Comms back! They're okay! 🥳🥳🥳
Good grief why am I tearing up
🥳🎶💃🎶✨🥳💖
They went farther away from Earth than any human ever has before, and they're back safely on our pale blue dot.
It's so refreshing and cathartic to witness the successful conclusion of a human endeavor that took cooperative work of hundreds of people and has exploration at its heart: *this unifies*.
This is the kind of thing our species needs to be doing, both off-planet and off-. This is a creative human energy that *can* solve our housing & hunger problems.
"From up here, you look like one thing. Homo Sapiens is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. This shows what we can do not just when we put our differences aside but when we put our differences together."
--Victor Glover,
astronaut,
speaking from space
Space Catitude 🚀Well. Either they're about to come home, or they're about to die. So yeah. Tense.
@TerryHancock The specter of Challenger just looms.
Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦@courtcan I watched Challenger in real time. Didn’t expect that memory to be so vivid. Holding my breath for Integrity.
@StaceyCornelius Challenger has been on my mind so very much these past 10 days. 😔