ZUHAUSE: Die Besatzung der Artemis II ist wieder auf der Erde angekommen und beendet damit eine fast zehntägige Reise um den Mond und weiter in den Weltraum, als Menschen jemals zuvor gereist sind

*clapping*

I’m so glad I’m alive for this. I wasn’t even dreamed up the first time we went.

What an incredible time to be alive, thank you to these four brave people for the joy and hope they’ve brought so many of us with their journey. 

It’s 9:30 am for me and I’ve just woken up with blood-shot eyes, feeling extremely hungover. I lived with this mission these past 10 days, had the livestream constantly in the background, stayed late to see the launch, stayed late to watch the fly by, and now stayed late to see them come back home safely.

Of course, I knew nothing of commander Reid Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, and it would be improper to say that I now know much more. I’ve heard of them mostly as names — ones that I did memorize, but names nonetheless — before the launch, yet these past 10 days they were constantly in the background for my family, not in the perverse reality show way, but as humans whose important mission we were enthralled by. Not only did they successfully conduct one of the most important missions of humanity in the last 50 years, but they did it with million of people like me observing them and every message they exchanged back with Earth, from the relative mundanities of a broken toilet (that far too many people were obsessed with) to their profound words during the flyby of the Moon or the eclipse.

I am so proud of them, and so proud of everyone involved in this mission, I am so, so proud!

I don’t want to “get to know them better” or continue following their lives; I am under no delusion that I now know them personally, us gaining such a perspective on their personal lives was a side effect, not the goal. Yet they couldn’t have picked a better team of four humans to send, I am so grateful their humour and camaraderie were such an integral part of my life, of our lives these past 10 days, and I am just overwhelmed with emotions after such an eventful night (but luckily uneventful, too!) and the short sleep I had.

Totally worth it!

Why Elon (scammer) Musk is so utterly quiet?

It’s these types of success that inspire the next generation and hopefully bring us into the future of space travel.

Why not land on the Moon? I mean….why go all that way and not land on the moon….they did it in the 1960’s why can’t they do it now?