"The sheer distances are difficult for the layman to fully grasp: Despite it being the closest celestial body to the Earth, our moon is roughly 238,900 miles from us, more than 30 Earth diameters. If you were somehow driving a car toward it on a space highway at 70 mph, it would take more than 142 continuous days of driving, without stopping, to reach it."
"Well, because we're completely suffused in horror on a daily basis, for one. There can be little doubt that our current state of affairs in the U.S. is at least partly to blame for why the upcoming Artemis II moon mission-which aims to send a crew of four circling the moon on an observational run, and could launch as soon as Sunday-has seemingly not exactly captured the public imagination."
Humans landed crews on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972, traversing roughly 238,900 miles—more than 30 Earth diameters. A hypothetical car driving toward the moon at 70 mph would take over 142 continuous days to arrive. Artemis II aims to send a crew of four to circle the moon on an observational run and could launch as soon as Sunday. Widespread U.S. crises and daily sensational events have reduced public attention toward the mission. Reports of ICE shootings and unreported detainee deaths, large releases of Epstein Files and pedophilia accusations, and aggressive foreign-policy actions have saturated public awareness.
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