There are moments in spaceflight where all the engineering, all the delays, all the politics fade into the background—and what’s left is something much simpler: people looking up. That’s exactly what played out at Kennedy Space Center as crowds gathered for the Artemis II launch, a mission that marks NASA’s return to sending humans around the moon for the first time in decades. Among them was a young boy who had made the trip to Titusville, Flor…