Four astronauts took the stage on Wednesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and spoke of nations working together and of inspiring everyone everywhere.
“Collaboration needs to be the ultimate goal if eight billion of us are going to have a bright future on this planet,” said Jeremy Hansen, an astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency.
He and three American astronauts are set to travel around the moon and back to Earth as soon as next February in the NASA mission called Artemis II.
“As we come around the far side, just having humanity stop for a moment and say, ‘Wow, look at what we can do when we work together,’ let’s just set goals to do a better job of that on this planet today,” Mr. Hansen said.
He, along with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of NASA, was speaking during a NASA news conference.
Their remarks seemed at times out of step with today’s polarized nation and world, and they were also in marked contrast with what Sean Duffy, who is the acting administrator of NASA in addition to serving as the U.S. transportation secretary, said a couple of days earlier.
