Yesterday Nasa’s giant new moon rocket crept from the Kennedy Space Center Aseembly building at dawn at 1 MPH, hardly rocket launch speed to escape the Earth's orbit. At turtle speed the Artmeis II reached the launch pad at nightfall. Sometime in February barring any foreseeable interference from 47 like egotistically renaming the Space Center after himself as he had the nation's performance center in Washington, the Artemis II will carry a lunar vehicle beyond the upper reaches of Earth's gravity to the Moon, the first such voyage since Richard Nixon defunded the Apollo mission in 1972 in favor of orbit missions. Ricahrd Nixon truly believed that the USA landed on the Mooon and he spoke to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the White House on July 20, 1969. Almost 700 million people worldwide witnessed the Lunar accomplishment or nearly one-fifth of humanity. I don't recall having seen it.
I believed mankind stepped the moon and the bootprints from all the successful Apollo mission might have survived our long absence from the our pale companion through the cosmos.
I am genuinely glad that NASA has committed to renewing our exploration of the great unknown.
Maybe this time I will watch the launch.
And with excitement.
Next year Andromeda.
As my old biker friend Eddie Mikey said back in 1971, "Why the shit gets a foot high, step a foot higher."
And it's knee high under 47. The trans Orange Messiah.
The moon landing July 20, 1969.
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