To the dark side of the moon

Distance lends perspective. Without doubt, the Fortunate Four flying on Artemis II must be getting this perspective as, at the time of writing, they travel to the far side of the moon, further than any man has been before.

- NAVTEJ SARNA

Without doubt too, they must be thanking the countless stars around them, that at least for 10 days, they were able to leave this miserable world as it commits suicide, murder and mindless destruction, all at once. From the Artemis window, they would have compared our beautiful blue planet favourably to all else around them, admired the magical view of oceans and land masses, bathed in white swirls. But soon the earth would have appeared smaller, the lines of the continents fainter and increasingly irrelevant. The minuscule proportion of the earth with the endless surrounding vastness would have been quickly driven home.