When I Consider the Heavens …
By GFI board member, Mark Woita …
When I Consider the Heavens …
Recently, on April 6, 2026, the four U.S. Artemis II astronauts flew around the backside of the Earth’s Moon! The first flyby in over 50 years!
For them, the time from “Earthset” to “Earthrise” was about forty minutes, during which the astronauts could not see, nor communicate with, their home planet, the Earth.
How eerie those forty minutes must have been.
There was enough light for them to view the back side of the Moon, which they described as a “dark matte …