I just keep forgetting about the moon mission (too much awful US-related news, and also too much life stuff happening). Looks like they're actually doing it!

The part that I'm actually excited about is the perspective of looking back at Earth from the Moon. That is COOL. I spent some time my last night in NZ looking up at the Moon, thinking about astronauts, and also tilting my head to try to understand why the moon looked upside-down to me from NZ!