NASA astronauts begin journey home having collected eagerly awaited images of impact craters and ridges
Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion they felt while soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.
Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who worked in pairs at the Orion capsule windows, are those of the Earth rising from behind the moon, a solar eclipse and parts of the 590-mile (950km) wide Orientale impact basin that have never been observed with the naked eye.
Further images are expected to shed light on the brown, green and orange hues the astronauts reported on the greyish landscape, and possibly faint layers of moondust that may have been visible during the Earthrise.
It was really hard for me to listen to them speak… Idk it felt to me like they were trying really hard to “sound” a certain way, I don’t quite know how to describe it. Like they knew this was a media event and they’re “supposed” to be inspirational and enthusiastic and all that, and trying really hard to fulfill that objective.
I mean they probably are very enthusiastic and moved by the experience, but still, it felt very fake to me in some way.
Maybe this is just my personal biases, but I don’t think it is. It kind of turned me off the whole thing. I felt like I wasn’t listening to people anymore but an agenda/propaganda, listening to programmed machines.
Tempering emotions easily is a preferred trait in an astronaut
That’s not really it imo, I’m also extremely good at tempering my emotions, but the question is when do you want to do it. If there’s an emergency and panic would cause injury or death, tempering your emotions is extremely useful. If you’re just casually speaking about an experience, not so much.
But I agree that it is extremely likely they were selected particularly for what I noticed here.
Got the same vibe