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On April 1, 2026 the Artemis 2 launched into space. A collaborative mission between the US, Canada and the ESA. It will be the farthest that human beings have ever traveled.
It is the culmination of the cream of the crop that meritocracies and democracies can produce. Every Astronaut has multiple degrees, can pilot and probably has the most stable mental health imaginable.
This mission will test whether solar wings can sufficiently charge their on board battery among many other scientific experiments.
It is sadly overshadowed by world events and the usual bickering about why are we going to space when we have so many problems on earth? Because the amount of applicable science these public programs have given us from space blankets to prosthetics cannot be measured. And they do it on a shoestring budget.
For anyone interested NASA has a grat site on the mission and the bios of these astronauts as well as a live stream.
GODSPEED, Artemis 2. May you and the crew return home safely.
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