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Just wish I could get some spacePhotograph: Jessica Studer/ESA/IPEV/PNRA

May 27th 2026|2 min read

AFTER TEN days in space, Christina Koch described her Artemis II crew as “inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked”. Reid Wiseman, another of the NASA astronauts, said they were “bonded for ever”.

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