A short while ago the four astronauts of Artemis II successfully splashed down in the ocean off the coast of San Diego. They made it!!
(I had been afraid of this mission. They were in my prayers a LOT.)
For over a week I have been tuned in whenever I could to NASA's official YouTube feed, usually streaming it to the high-def television set in my living room. I couldn't help but reflect on how our parents and grandparents (and now even some GREAT-grandparents) huddled around the tiny screen of the family TV to watch blurry black and white images from the Moon during the Apollo program over fifty years ago. And now we get to watch it in full-size resolution in beautiful color straight from the Moon and across the Internet to our devices.
I've been hanging on everything that the crew of Artemis II did, and when they sent back those amazing pictures from their swing-around the Moon, it was the most beautiful spectacle that's I've seen in a very long time...
It's like we're back to a place where America was much more hopeful, far less cynical. That era from before I was even born, when we could do amazing things.
Let's pray that feeling lasts awhile.
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