This week’s image was captured by the Orion spacecraft Integrity during its Moon flyby on April 6, 2026. It puts a lot of today’s politics into perspective.
As the Earth was setting, NASA pilot Victor Glover stated:
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.
The photo above can be found with many other photos in NASA’s Astronomy Pictures of the Day Archive.
Note: As Carl Sagan said of Earth, in part, many years ago:
That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there…
Our Awesome Universe 