Going Back to the Moon
Old masters NASA have finally sent their Artemis rocket to the moon. Back in the day I would've been -pardon the pun - over the moon with joy that they were doing this kind of thing but of course Elon Musk and his Space X have stolen their thunder quite a bit. The Artemis is a single-use rocket unlike the fancy things Space X have built with their multiple launches. Dare I say, the thing is more of the mid-20th century than the 21st Century. Since being conceived during the Dubya administration, the project has been overtaken quite a bit by technological developments around the world.
Elon Musk himself has launched himself into what might as well be the Moon for him with his Twitter purchase. It's all very messy right now, but lest we forget it's also the same dude that made rockets and electric vehicles viable. He may pull that one out of the hat as well.
We sure live in interesting times. I wonder what Chuck Yeager would make of all this.
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