NASA’s Artemis II crew is receiving huge accolades from America’s Christian community after several of the astronauts openly admitting to their religious experience aboard the moon-bound craft upon their successful return as well as for the overtly Christian call to heed Jesus’s central teachings in the Gospels.
For context, the crew aboard the Artemis II was the first manned spaceflight traveling to the moon and back since the 1970s. The mission has rejuvenated the national conversation around exploring the moon specifically and space in general, and this venture was designed to test new crew capsules and rockets to provide critical information for future launches and eventual lunar landings. At their peak, the four-person crew went as far as over 250,000 miles away from Earth as it traversed the dark side of the moon.
Reacting on X to one of the four astronauts recalling his moving lunar experience, Fox News’ social media account wrote: “Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition.”
“When I got back on the ship, I’m not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything…So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I’d never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears. It’s very hard to fully grasp what we just went through,” Wideman said in statements to the press alongside his crew.
Watch that moment below:
And reacting on X to one of the four astronauts recalling his moving lunar experience, Eric Daugherty of Florida Voice News wrote: “WOW! Artemis II pilot Victor Glover spreads the gospel after a safe return home from space. This dude is a MASTERCLASS!”
“I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again, because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was with — it’s too big to just be in one body.” Watch that epic clip below too:
In recorded audio that The Christian Tribune previously reported, Glover was speaking to NASA on Earth as the capsule was about to pass on the so-called dark side of the moon and anticipated losing radio contact and it lost a sightline with the home planet. “It to remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on earth, and that’s love. Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are, and he, also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself,” the Artemis II pilot declared.
Continuing, he added: “And so as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we’re still to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on earth and around Earth. We love you from the moon…We will see you on the other side.”
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