Artemis II Reminds Us
A few months ago I wrote that American pride starts with remembering who we are – and that a country which stops doing hard things eventually forgets it ever could.
Today, Artemis II came home.
Four astronauts, a lunar flyby, and a splashdown that looked a lot like the photos my parents watched live on television more than fifty years ago. Except this wasn't a memory. This was hours ago.
I have been thinking all evening about what it felt like to watch it. Not the engineering, though the engineering is staggering. Not the politics, because this moment belongs to something larger than that. What I felt was the thing I wrote about and was not sure I would feel again in my lifetime: the quiet, uncomplicated pride of watching my country do something unambiguously worth being proud of.
Pride is not denial. It is commitment. It is the willingness to believe that building impossible things together is still who we are, and then going and proving it.
Today we proved it. Welcome home, Artemis II. And thank you for reminding a lot of us how that's supposed to feel.
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