Five years ago in another publication I asked a simple, uncomfortable question about the Project Artemis moon program: Why? At the time, the program was a Trump-era relic (est. 2017) being kept on life support by the Biden administration with a fresh coat of "identity politics" paint. By promising to put "the first woman and person of color on the Moon," NASA attempted to justify a grab-bag of rationales that never held up under scrutiny.
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