I wasn’t persuaded Artemis II would actually launch today, what with its delays so far, but I found out it did a few minutes afterward, and watched a tape of the launch on YouTube. As one can. Then I nicked a NASA picture of the launch. As one can, since it’s public domain.

All well and good, but the boy I used to be asks, “Why did this take so long? Why no moon base by, say, the actual year 1999?” The man I became answers, “Money, boy.” An entirely unsatisfactory answer for both of us, but so it goes.