*** Note: there are a lot of images in this post, so the email will probably get cut off. Just open it in your browser to see the rest of it!I am absolutely obsessed with the Artemis II mission. And in particular, I am obsessed with the below photo taken by astronaut Christina Koch, known as Earthset.The zoomed out version is honestly just as captivatingIt’s so cool to me that we could look at this picture right after it was taken and instantly know that it will be one of the most important photographs taken this entire century. What a special feeling.Earthset is sort of a tribute to Earthrise, taken on Christmas Eve 1968 by astronaut William Anders. In 2018, Anders reflected on the photo fifty years to the day after taking it, saying, “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth.”NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWhat’s even cooler than Earthset, in my opinion, is this video that astronaut Reid Wiseman took on his iPhone as the Integrity capsule…
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