Tocher: The contrasts are unavoidable

  • Ian Tocher/Staff
    Ian Tocher/Staff
  • With her hair floating in near-zero gravity, NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch gazes out at Mother Earth from a window on the Artemis II spacecraft. CONTRIBUTED
    With her hair floating in near-zero gravity, NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch gazes out at Mother Earth from a window on the Artemis II spacecraft. CONTRIBUTED
    I keep thinking about how far away they are.Literally as I write this, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission will travel farther from Earth than any human beings have ever been before, peaking at 252,756 miles away as the crow flies. Within 10 minutes, they will slip entirely behind the moon, where not even radio signals can reach them, where they will be well and truly alon...

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