Sheltering in Space

It’s been a strange trip: remembering the beginnings of COVID in Brooklyn, New York

Losing our north star of security, but surviving zero gravity during those first few months of COVID in Brooklyn, NY.

Let’s tour the station. Even in quarantine, everyone had a job to do. While Laura telecommuted, Ken eradicated mole crickets.

Each pilot was responsible for mission success and safety, and for staying in contact with (family in) Houston.

Quarantine meals came in frozen packets, and weren’t so different from regular earth food. There was even pizza!

Grooming was hard, though, due to zero gravity, and the fact that no one owned clippers.

On shopping walks, quara-nauts stayed six feet away from others. Also, six feet away from Earth.

Sheltering in place, like space, was lonely, but occasionally beautiful. Even transcendent.