A somewhat unusual image, this astronaut. Floating in immeasurable space, he adopts the Lotus posture of Buddha: legs crossed in cross-legged armchair and the typical 'reassuring' hand gesture called the Abhaya Mudra. The hand raised to the height of the chest with the palm facing outwards is the posture of reassurance or fearlessness.
He is completely Zen, floating motherly alone in infinite, icy space. He is -relatively speaking- not far from home, as the planet Earth reflects in his helmet. We cannot see his gaze behind his gold-coated helmet, but no doubt he is looking at Earth, at us.
The Earth is his prayer wheel, and it turns every day.
Behind him, we see stars and planets, and to be more precise, the Milky Way galaxy.
Over there on Earth, of course, things are not going well at all, but this astronaut seems confident that all will be well.
Breathe in... Breathe out...
Breathe in...
How much oxygen does he actually have left?
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