Back to the moon

With a properly diverse crew aboard, and a perhaps symbolic Roman numeral after her name, the moonship Artemis launched yesterday on a grand figure-eight that, if nothing goes wrong, will take her crew farther into space than humans have ever gone before, looping around the far side of the moon. The last time we set out in that direction, in the 1960s, we were in a race with Soviet Russia; today the great competitor is China. Artemis is an all-of-enterprise spacecraft, with contributions by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northop Grumman, and Airbus. Godspeed to her and her crew!