A Widowed Father Flies to the Moon: Top Photos

A widowed father walked his daughters through the will, then flew to the Moon.

The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter above Compton crater. The shadow in the foreground is from the crater's central peaks, while the mountains just abo
Earth rises over the lunar horizon. On Easter Sunday, Victor Glover recorded a message from deeper in space than any human had been on a holiday, calling Earth "this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together." © NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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