Apr 012026
For the first time in 53 years, NASA’s Deep Space Network is communicating not with a robotic spacecraft but with a human spaceflight in deep space.
Presently just over 32,000 km from the center of the Earth, in, as I understand it, a highly elliptical orbit, not quite yet heading to the Moon: that will involve yet another phrase we have not heard uttered “live” in 53 years: trans-lunar injection.