EditorialA worker, wearing head-to-toe white dust suit, on the automatic timepiece movement assembly line at the Yamagata Casio factory in Higashine, Japan, Nov. 21, 2022. (Niroko Hayashi/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows the astronaut Michael López-Alegría in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station in 2002. (NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA shows astronauts Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch inside the Quest airlock preparing the spacesuits and tools they used on their first spacewalk together, Oct. 15, 2019. (NASA via The New York Times).