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A new perspective: Earth seen as a crescent to the Moon, an image taken by NASA astronauts on the Artemis II mission.
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Lisa Jarvis
Three words uttered from Mission Control to astronaut Reid Wiseman commander of Artemis II, perfectly capture the groundswell of emotion many of us have experienced over the past week as a team of astronauts flew beyond the previous reaches of human space travel: “Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.”
That line, borrowed from Rocky, hero of science fiction blockbuster movie Project Hail Mary, came as Commander Wiseman took in, for the first time, the full, majestic scale of the moon. Our nearest neighbour and nightly companion loomed large before them, appearing several times bigger than home, which was a mere crescent off in the distance.
