Your children always wanting to be in your room, in your space, or just near you is really a sign that they feel safe with you. They love your presence, your energy, and the comfort of home you created for them. That’s not something to take lightly. Job well done.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
The “Christians are anti-science rubes” line is getting old. Part 2
Meet Reid Wiseman, Commander of Artemis II. The man who just led the first crewed mission around the Moon since 1972.
He’s not even “really a religious person,” by his own words.
But when he stepped back onto the Navy ship after that historic flight and saw the chaplain’s cross on his collar, he broke down in tears.
“When I got back on the ship… I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears. It’s very hard to fully grasp what we just went through.”
Think about that.
You can orbit the Moon, stare back at the fragile blue marble from a quarter million miles away, and the grandeur of it all still leaves a man searching for something bigger than science alone can explain.
The cross, that simple symbol of the gospel was the only thing that could meet him in that moment.
This is the same crew that included Victor Glover openly living out his faith in lunar orbit.
And now the Commander himself is moved to tears by the cross.
Funny how the people who have actually left the planet keep running into the same reality the scoffers deny.
The Artemis II Commander comes home and weeps at the sight of a cross.
Real faith doesn’t fear the data. It doesn’t hide from the stars.
It looks at the cosmos and sees the signature of the Creator who hung every one of them in place and yet still reaches down to a broken man on a Navy ship.
To every skeptic who loves to trot out the old line that Christianity is “anti-science” insult.
The evidence keeps stacking up against you.
The men and women who have actually left the planet don’t seem to agree with your narrative.
And to every believer who’s ever been mocked for holding both faith and reason? keep going.
Keep exploring. Keep speaking truth when they ask.
The King who set the stars in place is the same King who hung on that cross and rose from the grave.
He is risen.
He is risen indeed.
All glory to the King who made the heavens and the earth, and who still meets men and women, even commanders of lunar missions right where they are.
NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition:
"When I got back on the on the ship — I'm not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything."
"So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears."
"It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through."
Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.