After taking thousands of photos and providing countless descriptions of the Moon, the four Artemis astronauts confided on their way back to Earth that they had a hard time realizing what they had just experienced.
“The human spirit is not made to go through what we have just experienced,” said Commander Reid Wiseman, with stars in his eyes, during a press conference Wednesday evening more than 280,000 km from the ground.
“We have a lot of things to think about and write in our journals in order to fully realize what we have just experienced,” he explained.
With his American colleagues Christina Koch and Victor Glover and the Canadian Jeremy Hansen, Mr. Wiseman broke a record this week by venturing further into space than anyone before them.
Together, they also made the first tour of our natural satellite in more than half a century, and on this occasion observed a sunset and an Earthrise but also a solar eclipse.
“We had seen some great simulations done by our lunar science team, but when it actually happened, it completely blew us away,” said pilot Victor Glover.
“It was one of the greatest gifts of this mission,” he added.
And he admits with a laugh: "I haven't even begun to assimilate everything we've been through yet."
“What I can tell you is that it was very intense and that these are memories that I will keep all my life. I will think about it and talk about it for the rest of my life, that's for sure,” added the astronaut, who enters the history books as the first black man to have gone to the Moon.
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