Flora Lichtman

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Tracy, what's your relationship to launches?

I think I mean both.

And it wasn't scary.

You said that Artemis II is not exactly deja vu because there are so many differences.

What's different from a sociological perspective?

That is wild.

Well, I wanted to ask you about a cultural thing that I have noticed.

I have noticed in these messages back to Earth, and, you know, I'm a super consumer, so I'll just, that's an aside.

But the astronauts are not shying away from the L word.

Here's pilot Victor Glover.

Houston copies.

We'll see you on the other side.

He's talking to us on Earth like we are all his family and that he's our family.

I guess I wonder what you make of that.

I love that because we heard something so similar from mission specialist Christina Cook,

You know, hearing you say this, you know, I assumed that this is sort of like NASA boilerplate.

But it sounds like what you're saying is that that message actually came out of a genuine perspective shift that came with leaving the planet.

I was thinking about, like, what's the essence of these moon missions?

And it's not about exploring.