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?
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.
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.