1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space

Had Hadfield not focused on the humanity of his team, it’s possible we’d never have had as clear an understanding of “what they’re doing up there” as we do.

When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be i

Expand that view, as the astronauts did gazing out of their spacecrafts, and it immediately becomes clear that individualism is a mirage. Connection defines us.