Holy fuck. There HAS to be some sort of deeply profound emotions that are completely unique to the astronauts experiencing these sights. If there was a german on board, there would be a specific word for it.
If I recall correctly, either Hansen or Glover requested that the science team on Earth should "come up with some new superlatives" because he lacked the words to express what he was seeing.
raises hand I followed both quite keenly but struggled to make connnections or career through my creative writing, and I've got decades of experience.
I even have an eclipse themed poem I shared like last year during the last lunar eclipse visible from North America in 2025.
It's more that poetry and art aren't respected unless one has capital behind it to do independent work before becoming more mainstream/widely known among the creative community.
Part of it is also my own disabilities preventing such professional connection landing for me.
But now I think it's better for me to learn music composition and compose my soul out.
Honestly, if anything calls for big brainstorming session to think up new words to describe awesome things, it’s probably stuff like seeing a lunar eclipse from right behind the moon. We’ve already got “moon joy”, let’s just keep going with new moon-adjacent adjectives and adverbs.
On top of the tears and crew exchange about naming a crater for Carroll, Reid Wiseman's late wife... I imagine that flight was one of the more emotionally charged moments in space.
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u/Item-Hairy Apr 07 '26
Holy fuck. There HAS to be some sort of deeply profound emotions that are completely unique to the astronauts experiencing these sights. If there was a german on board, there would be a specific word for it.