Planet Earth, You Are a Crew: The Meaning and Impact of Artemis II

Planet Earth, You Are a Crew: The Meaning and Impact of Artemis II

By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent NSS Managing Director of Membership More than half a century after the last Apollo astronauts left the Moon’s neighborhood, four human beings climbed aboard an Orion spacecraft, rode a pillar of 8.8 million pounds of thrust into the Florida sky, and flew farther from home than anyone in history. When they came back nine days later, splashing down in the Pacific southwest of San Diego on April 10, 2026 …