"It's like you're processing something that your brain doesn't have the capacity to process because there just hasn't been anything like it before," she says. Ann spent 204 days on the ISS surrounded by the cold, dark vacuum of space. "When you first get up there, you're like, oh gosh, I don't want to accidentally punch a hole through the wall."
NASA’s Artemis mission is the first step toward a long-term human settlement on the moon. Vox’s Unexplainable examines whether humans are even capable of living far from Earth for an extended period of time.
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