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NASA released the Artemis II astronauts’ first downlinked images, 1.5 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century . “It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks,” commander Reid Wiseman said.

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The psychological shift from seeing Earth as "home" to "that blue dot over there" is fascinating — astronauts consistently report it's less about the view and more about suddenly feeling like an observer of humanity itself.

We’ve almost become inured to the wonder of our world. When images like this were first seen, people wanted to protect this planet and the fragile life on it. Now, not so much. The people and corporations in power willfully pollute and ravage the planet for profit and very few cry out against it