{"id":584110,"date":"2026-04-14T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:14:08","slug":"nasa-chose-the-right-crew-to-launch-a-new-era-of-human-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584110\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMaybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we\u2019re doing is special, but we\u2019re the same distance from you, and I\u2019m trying to tell you\u2014just trust me\u2014you are special. In all of this emptiness\u2014this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the Universe\u2014you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we\u2019ve got to get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"5568\" data-pswp-height=\"3712\" data-pswp- data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55192084847_0b9940c4b9_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n              <img width=\"5568\" height=\"3712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55192084847_0b9940c4b9_o.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon\u2019s horizon on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      NASA\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon\u2019s horizon on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          NASA<\/p>\n<p>Back on Earth, Koch recalled seeing our home planet as she returned to Houston on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen we saw tiny Earth, people asked our crew what impressions we had, and honestly, what struck me wasn\u2019t necessarily just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the Universe,\u201d she said. \u201cI know I haven\u2019t learned everything that this journey has yet to teach me, but there is one new thing I know, and that is planet Earth, you are a crew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are important messages for a world afflicted by war and division. Hansen, a Canadian mission specialist on Artemis II, encapsulated the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou haven\u2019t heard us talk a lot <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/04\/the-moon-is-already-on-google-maps-did-artemis-ii-really-tell-us-anything-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about the science<\/a>, the things we\u2019ve learned, and that\u2019s because they\u2019re there, and they\u2019re incredible, but it\u2019s the human experience that is extraordinary for us, and it sounds like maybe for you, too. When you look up here, you\u2019re not looking at us. We are a mirror reflecting you, and if you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, NASA (and Canada) really nailed it with this group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMaybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we\u2019re doing is special, but we\u2019re the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-584110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}