Like many of you, we’ve been following the crew of Integrity aboard Artemis II. Yesterday they completed their lunar flyby and are now heading back to our home world. As a child of the Apollo era, I have been running the NASA live feed in the background near 24/7 – to be as close in the moment where one can feel the deep emotional response of the crew.
On Day 4, Victor Glover inspired me and so many others when he spoke of the opportunity:
“You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship. Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you, just trust me. You are special. In all of this emptiness -this is a whole bunch of nothing – this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this Beautiful place that we get to exist together.”
On Day 5, Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen reflected upon the Artemis crew traveling farther than any other humans:
“We choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long lived.”
At magnitude.io/, we hold these words firmly in our heart. The future starts now.
art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
Image Credit: NASA