A Widowed Father Flies to the Moon: Top Photos

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

NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will be making her second flight to space on the Artemis II mission, serving as a mission specialist. Koch served as flight engineer aboard the space station for
Christina Koch, the first woman to fly beyond low Earth orbit. When comms came back online after the far-side pass, she spoke first: "We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other." © Josh Valcarcel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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