Do we want to visit the moon? 🌙

This is a beautiful, bittersweet comic strip by the artist Tum Ulit (tumblr: tum-oit) titled “I can come only this far.”
It tells a short, wordless love story between two young astronauts (a boy in an orange suit and a girl in a white suit) who clearly love each other deeply, but are bound to different space programs/companies with incompatible rockets.
The sequence:

Text appears: “I can come only this far”
(Meaning: this is the limit of how close we can physically get because of our different rockets/suits/systems.)

2–6. The boy desperately tries to reach the moon (her) using every possible way: piggyback rocket, jetpack, riding on top of the shuttle, even launching himself with booster rockets attached to his legs. He fails every time and falls back.
7–9. They finally meet in space, floating weightlessly. They hold hands, hug, smile, and share a tender moment… but then their trajectories pull them apart again.
10–11. Back on Earth, they stand on separate launch pads, looking at each other sadly across the distance, unable to cross that final gap on the ground either.
12–13. The girl turns and hugs him from behind one last time before they have to go their separate ways.

Final panel: they stand on their respective pads, ready for their own missions, forever separated by the systems they belong to.

The core tragedy is that no matter how hard they try, no matter how much they love each other, they literally cannot be together because they are locked into different rockets, different programs, different futures. It’s a metaphor for relationships destroyed by circumstances beyond the couple’s control: distance, incompatible life paths, obligations, or even rival companies/countries in the space race.
It’s a heartbreaking little story about loving someone you can touch for only a fleeting moment in the vastness of space, but never truly be with.