Other "events" over the last few days may have overshadowed this announcement: Artemis II: The 4 astronauts NASA picked for moon mission | CNN I was 4 years old when Apollo XI launched, so I don't have any real memory of it. I'm looking forward to following the Artemis moon mission(s). While the Space Shuttle program was initially interesting, it quickly became routine and - dare I say it - boring, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs remind one of the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia. For Artemis II, there will be a non-American in the crew: Canada Earns a Spot Among NASA’s Artemis II Crew - The New York Times (nytimes.com) It may not be common knowledge, but the early space programs benefited from the cancellation of a Canadian supersonic fighter program in 1959: The Canadians Who Got America to the Moon | Discover Magazine