Learned recently the Artemis II mission is carrying a 1in. x 1in. piece of the canvas used in the Wright brotherβs Flyer, oohhh man. I love technology but I also adore beyond everything the sentiment for the past we attach to advancements, because a lot of people think thereβs no need to remember the time we could barely figure out plane flight while blasting off to go briefly orbit the moon.
Thereβs sometimes a mindset of science purely for advancement, the next big thing, which feels both distinctly human and un-human (inhuman? Uhhhh) Itβs our nature to go as far as we can, build until we hit something that can actually stop us. Learn and see it all. But weβre also the people that saw shapes in the stars; we have to give it all meaning. Artemis II is only one part of a much larger plan, but by itself itβs still an incredible feat. Every step of the way has meaning to the world, and taking a single square inch of fabric to make us look back is a really nice reminder of all of it.