We Don’t Know What’s Out There

The astronauts who circled the moon in 1968 could still see Earth. They were farther from home than anyone had ever been, but when they looked back, there it was - blue and white and impossibly fragile against the black. They knew the math. They knew the trajectory would bring them home. But they’d never actually been that far before. Beyond low Earth orbit, past the point where you could fix…