Seeing the Dark Side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II Mission
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Well, I think hands down the feel-good news of the year edging out even the Knicks run to the NBA Finals. was the NASA mission to the Moon.
You don't have to be a space nut or have a fixation on setting up a colony on Mars to get a kick out of American astronauts flying across the so-called dark side of the Moon. NASA is, to say the least, in tumult, which is a long story, but still, the four Crew members of Artemis II were the first humans ever to glimpse what we can never see from Earth. And that was something. David W.
Brown writes for The New Yorker about space exploration, and he sat down recently with NASA's Reed Wiseman, the commander of the mission. Wiseman was a test pilot and a Navy captain. and he's now fifty, which makes him the oldest person ever to travel beyond low Earth orbit. Tell me about the moment you were selected for Artemis 2. It sounds like it was a s as much a sobering moment as it was a joyful one.
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