I miss the olden days when I could manage to give even one fractional shit about human spaceflight.
When every news article didn't require navigating whether it was propaganda, or a grift, or both (because it's *never* science).
When I thought that humanity surviving beyond Earth was even *remotely* possible.
This timeline sucks.
I was really excited about the Apollo Moon landing.
But I haven't watched anything from Artemis. Partly because the other events in the world are making news programs too infuriating.
Partly because I think it's just preparing for billionaires colonisation, expanding from Musk's de facto ownership of low Earth orbit.
Maybe I'm more politically aware now than I was in 1969, but I accepted that it was something only governments would do and commercial exploitation of space was only just beginning.
jwz
Eric Lawton