Nows and Forevers

Yes, I’ve got rocket fever again. But then again, I always have rocket fever.

I’m always up for a ’60s and ’70s throwback, and this is definitely it: The Artemis II crew will be doing a modern-day Apollo 8 mission — a little further out but still awesome —and I’m all in. I wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter on 40th anniversary of Apollo 8, that’s how much I dig it. I even watched the coverage of Artemis I, which didn’t have any astronauts aboard, back in 2022.

I was a toddler when Apollo 8 launched and in elementary school the last human trip to the Moon, but I do remember it. And even though it was a long time ago, there are similarities to that time and now: mission to the Moon, deeply divided country, America in a war.