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    To the moon and back

    Sep 02, 2022 5 minutes

    YOU HAVE TO MAKE TIME FOR AWE AND WONDER. When you’re working in space, you’re so mission-focused, you can almost forget your environment. It can be hard to process the remoteness and isolation until you get back to Earth.

    The cover image of Apollo Remastered (seen above), a new book of restored images from the Nasa archive billed as the ultimate photographic record of humankind’s greatest adventure, is of Commander Jim McDivitt looking up on Apollo 9 in 1969. I think a lot of people read awe and wonder in his face, but I see immense concentration; he’s docking the lunar module. When you’re docking, you’re using a robotic arm to grab another visiting vehicle, and it’s the most intense 90 seconds of your life. Everything depends on you.

    Where I do see that awe and wonder is in a picture

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