National Perspective — David Shribman — September 27, 2017

David Shribman

For more than a half-century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface unexplored, its far side unexamined, its mysteries left fallow.

The mission of Artemis II, scheduled for next month, is truly a voyage back to the future — back to a time when travel to the moon and human lunar travel was a futurist's dream and then, suddenly, with a brave challenge from a young president searching for a Cold War technological advantage over America's Communist rivals, a dream realized.

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