La primera misión de exploración a Fobos, una de las dos lunas de Marte, ha despegado este lunes a bordo de un cohete H3 desde el Centro Espacial de Tanegashima, en Japón, a las 21.41 hora peninsular española.

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Five months ago, four excited girls walked into a maximum-security area with their mother wearing the same black T-shirt printed with a photo of their father. Minutes later, he emerged from a building guarded by the military, amid camera flashes and television cameras, and looked at them with moist eyes from the other side of the fence. He could not approach or touch them. He had to respect quarantine, because in a few hours he would board the most powerful crewed rocket in history and head to the Moon. Without speaking, they said everything to each other, and the rest of the world understood them.

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