Humankind’s recent journey around the moon produced a spectacular photo album of our corner of the universe. Here was the crescent Earth , a luminous sliver surrounded by complete darkness, behind the graphite-colored moon. There was the moon’s farside rippled with craters , the way raindrops draw rings across the surface of a lake. There was the moon again , this time a shadowy marble levitating in space, encased in the soft glow of sunlight.  Only four people truly basked in these spellbinding views, but by capturing the scenery and sharing the snapshots, the Artemis II astronauts made myself and many others back on Earth feel momentarily, dazzlingly weightless.  That’s the magic of a good space picture. A single frame can shrink the distance between here and way out there, compressing the wonders of our celestial neighborhood down to the scale of human experience. When I think about such poignant, otherworldly photography, I think of Candy.…