On Monday afternoon, humankind reached a milestone in space. Just before 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the four astronauts aboard the Artemis II traveled farther from the Earth than any humans before in the vessel’s historic voyage around the moon, a precursor to humans returning to the lunar surface as soon as two years from now. The 10-day journey around the moon began on Wednesday, April 1, with the vessel scheduled to splash down on Friday evening off the coast of San Diego. Artemis II reached a maximum distance of 252,760 miles from Earth, surpassing a record set in 1970 by Apollo 13. This most recent NASA mission has turned almost everyone into armchair astronomists and astronauts. For kids who grew up in the late 1960s/early 1970s, space exploration was more than just some distant dream, it was reality. Men had made it to the moon, and the fantasy created by TV shows such as “Star Trek” seemed to be within our grasp. And then came Apollo 17 and the last crewed mission to the moo...