Atheists love to mock the Ascension. They say how absurd it is that someone who it is claimed is a God is taken up to Heaven like a rocket. Obviously a myth, they say.

As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
(Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11A)

How He leaves physically for the last time doesn’t seem important to me. What matters is if He is still here in spirit. I think He is here in spirit. Indeed, because millions follow Him every day, that can’t be denied. But I still can’t put hand on heart and say without any shadow of doubt that somewhere He is alive now in the same way as we are alive.