In defence of wonder, and going back to the moon
. We don’t get many shared experiences any more. Our histories, our entertainment, our windows on the world – even the facts of our basic reality – are fragmented into choose-your-own-adventure shards.
In November, 2022, the Artemis I mission sent the unmanned Orion spacecraft successfully around the moon and back. Earlier this month, the crew for Artemis II was announced, and those four astronauts – including a Canadian, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen – will pilot that same spacecraft around the moon and back home next year.
This project – the sheer brain-bending audacity of it – could gather what NASA is calling “the Artemis Generation” around their own screens, slack-jawed in unified amazement, just as the Apollo Generation once was.
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