Raptor

Fake gamer; real girl.

🏳️‍⚧️ Amateur game scholar.
Social worker. Events Person
Living on stolen Duwamish lands.


Old website I made for travel writings that droped a database
elucidovia.com/
Mastadon I probably won't use
tech.lgbt/@Raptor
Tumblr I probably won't use
www.tumblr.com/ohthatraptor
Username pretty much everywhere
OhThatRaptor

Tonight made me remember that a decade ago I was as close to the moon as I'll ever get. The attached pictures are from one small rock returned by the Apollo program that people have been allowed to touch for decades that visited Seattle in April of 2012.

And then I think, among all the strife and horror, the wastes of money, the deification of billionaires, war, pandemics, destruction of local and global ecosystems, and threat of worse...

Hell, as much as I have loved to slam the pork burdened SLS/Artemis program...

The Artemis 1 mission has launched successfully, is now in stable orbit around this blue orb, and will in all likelihood be heading to Luna and back on its very first launch. I'm writing this about 20 minutes before its translunar injection burn.

Sure, humanity has been there before, and this is just a trial run roughly equivalent to Apollo 6. However, all the vast majority of us have known are probes, and as great and efficient as they are, this is a huge step towards humans once again seeing, with their own eyes, the entirety and singular fragility of our tiny Earth with boarder only existing against the dark vacuum.

And I can not help but grin with glistening eyes at the prospect of awakening this knowledge in more people. I truly hope we who were too young to have witnessed Apollo take some inspiration and hope from Artemis. At very least, I hope the astronauts who personally join the realm of myth and legend do.


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