#spaceposting

"Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface and as I take man's last steps from the surface, back home, for some time to come, but we believe not too long into the future. I'd like to just let, what I believe history will record, that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

-gene cernan, apollo 17 mission elapsed time 170:41:17, 1972

Have you MET a human? We see a tall mountain and say "im gonna climb that" and then we do!!! When someone died trekking to the south pole, we sent more people until we were able to build a station there! We've watched birds in the sky for thousands of years and aspired to be like them. And then we did it, humans figured out aircraft! We can soar above the clouds and travel faster than ever before across the globe.

Because of our curiosity, because of our determination, because of our hopes and dreams and perseverance and ingenuity.

We've stared at our beautiful moon since forever, of course we would also want to go there. Of course we would build rocket after rocket, try and fail and try again, until we made it there.

Since when have humans ever said "it was too hard, so we gave up"?

a lot of the experienced women NASA astronauts, (see: Christina Koch, Ann McClain, Sophie Adenot (EDIT: Adenot is an ESA astronaut), Jessica Meir, Nicole Ayers, Zena Cardman) are currently in space or have recently returned from ISS expeditions. it is also likely that NASA wants to give the current and more recent astronaut classes time to train/get more flight experience before training them for future lunar landing missions like Artemis IV and V.