By: Ryan Foley – The Christian Post; ChristianPost.com
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman said that although he is not a religious man, he “broke down in tears” after returning from the mission and felt such intense emotion that he asked to speak with a Navy chaplain.
During a press conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, NASA astronauts who returned from the Artemis II mission last week discussed their experience in outer space. The astronauts were asked whether they had an experience similar to that of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who, after returning from the mission, focused on studying the nature of human consciousness.
When Wiseman was asked whether he experienced a “universal connectedness” upon returning to Earth or a “a shift in consciousness,” he described the emotional impact of the experience.
“I’m not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything. So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute. And when that man walked in, I’d never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his collar and I broke down in tears.”
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