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Are We Over the Moon?
January 4, 2026·33 min·3 clips
Why does no one care about NASA's new moon mission when Walter Cronkite once narrated rocket launches live on TV?
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Artemis is a moon story that becomes a question of timing, power, and control.
Joel Achenbach's uncertainty about Artemis gives the conversation its center of gravity. It treats a moon mission that still feels hazy to smart people as something more concrete than a slogan: a push to put Americans back on the moon before China does, and, later, a step toward…
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You want the moon race explained before the jargon starts piling up.
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