A Widowed Father Flies to the Moon: Top Photos

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

Liftoff! NASA’s Space Launch System carrying the Orion spacecraft lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022 in this came
The SLS rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center. On April 1, 2026, at 6:35 PM, a nearly identical launch carried four astronauts toward the Moon — the first crewed lunar mission in fifty-three years. © NASA/Chris Coleman and Kevin Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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