William Washington

There's David Kim, Zoe Frigno, Eric Yanez, Marissa Dodge, Regina Barriaco, Miles Lassie, Teo Ducat, Paulina Kriki, Elizabeth Z. Pardue, Cynthia Matu, Lulu Jemima, Doug Stewart, Nicholas Smarks.

The Spook theme song is by Pat Massini-Miller.

My name is William Washington.

And that's the Artemis II astronauts.

rocketed into the darkness on the far side of the moon.

There was radio silence while the world waited, hoping, hoping, fearing, hoping for almost 40 full minutes.

Then a voice cut through the static.

Christina Koch, as the ship emerged from the shadows, she said,

we will always choose Earth.

We will always choose each other.

And she said it, I think, I imagine, because she saw it.

This tiny, completely impossible, fragile blue speck surrounded by the sea of darkness.

She further away than any human has ever been.

We will always choose Earth.

We will always choose each other.

And I wonder if we must fly away.

far far away to finally understand where it is we belong never ever never ever never never