Миссия Artemis II NASA совершила исторический облёт Луны

"...triggered something I haven’t experienced in many months and certainly wasn’t expecting to feel on this occasion: pride...."

"...Somehow, the Artemis II mission succeeded under the same government of the scammers, by the sycophants, and for the rage-tweeters that has brought us Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Karoline Leavitt, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, and all the rest...."

"...Somehow, crowds of people around the country greeted the launch not with protests and lawsuits and conspiracy theories but with IRL cheers of unfeigned excitement...."

"...Somehow, at least as far as we know, Donald Trump and his family did not figure out how to use the Artemis program to steer billions of dollars into their own bank accounts...."

"...Somehow, the fan of “clean, beautiful coal” and enemy of wind turbines, who has dedicated his second term to shredding and torching the Biden administration’s climate policies, looked at the work NASA did on Artemis during the Biden years and said, “O.K.”..."

"...Somehow, we saw advanced American technology being used for peaceful purposes rather than for killing schoolchildren and teachers in Iran and sowing chaos in the global economy...."

"...How did everything go so right? Perhaps NASA conveniently failed to give the White House updates on Artemis until the rocket was safely off the ground?..."

"...Still, one way or another, Trump managed to sit on his hands this time. (That, or his minders were able to keep him so busy wrecking other things that he couldn’t Taj Mahal the space operation.)..."

"...And the rest of us were treated to a vision of things we used to take for granted, but that now seem nothing short of magical: competence, courage, pluralism, scientific prowess, and pride...."