At 6:35 in the evening, on April 1, 2026, a 322-foot column of fire rose from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. With that launch, human civilization crossed a threshold it had not crossed since 1972.
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen are aboard Orion. Their hearts pound as they race toward the Moon at speeds unmatched in over fifty years. Soon, they will disappear behind it, gazing at the far side as no one has before, setting a distance record from Earth: 252,000 miles. They will return to the Pacific Ocean on April 10. After tonight, nothing in their lives—or ours—will be quite the same.
History crashes in, rarely with warning. It comes like fire—sudden, ravenous, bathing the world in stark, impossible light.
This is one of those moments.