[dalrympm]

That was NASA administrator Bill Nelson trying to recreate the awe of the Apollo 8 Genesis reading. A bit out of touch...

[mulmen]

Even Apollo 8 was inappropriate and NASA has very deliberately avoided those kinds of embarrassments since.

[robwwilliams]

Agreed. It was pompously Abrahamic, evidently as much for political show as a heart-felt expression of wonder. We all do feel the wonder, but let’s avoid the Christmas kitsch and the tacit “God, the father” image he evoked.