“There's nothing absolute": Christina Koch reminds us our world is fragile and is shaped by 'our' choices

#ArtemisII mission specialist Christina Koch pointed out that the sense of permanence we feel is an illusion. There’s a quiet shift that happens when you stop seeing the world as something fixed and start seeing it as something fragile. The ground beneath us, the sky above us, the stories we tell ourselves about permanence all seemed uncertain when Koch saw our world from the cosmic wilderness. She understood that nothing is promised, yet we can make everything possible. When the scale of our existence expands, so does our responsibility. So Koch noted how the world is not just where we live. It is rather what we shape, every day, with every choice. And maybe that’s the most powerful truth of all.