"Let us hope that this milestone will inspire us to transcend 'all possible manner of differences,' as the great Du Bois once put it, and keep foremost in mind all that we have in common as human beings; as sisters and brothers here on Earth."

—@HenryLouisGates on #Artemis I
#NASA

@nasa One of my favorite bits of trivia about Du Bois is that in 1920 he wrote an early speculative fiction short story called The Comet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comet_(short_story)
The Comet (short story) - Wikipedia