Space Catitude 🚀 on Nostr: Today, I heard a video from Heather Cox Richardson in which she talked about being ...

Today, I heard a video from Heather Cox Richardson in which she talked about being viscerally bothered by video from the Artemis II mission because of her "fear of heights".

I find that hard to relate to. I am definitely nervous about heights -- or more precisely about losing my balance and falling from them -- but images from orbit, or even from the safety of the inside of an airplane seem far too abstract to me to be any cause of fear.

Also, in space, I know that the issue is drifting away from your spacecraft -- not "falling" in any usual sense (yes, I know that both you and the ship are "falling" in a physical sense, as that's what an orbit is, but it's not the same).