{"id":59751,"date":"2026-04-26T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59751"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:04:11","slug":"artemis-ii-impact-was-greater-than-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59751","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II impact was greater than I thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Well, kids, it appears that the Artemis II mission to the moon and back had a greater impact on me than I thought it would have.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I could have done a lot of things today. The weather is warm and breezy. I could have spent the day outside working on my yard. Instead, I parked in front of the TV and watched two Netflix documentaries on the Apollo space program. One dealt with the Apollo 11 mission that put human beings on the moon&#8217;s surface for the first time. The other dealt with the Apollo 13 mission that brought home three astronauts in a high-stakes deep space rescue mission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yes, the Artemis II mission has invigorated my interest in recent history. It returned me to the days when I would await launches with my Mom, counting down until lift-off. Mom is gone now. I, of course, am now an old man &#8230; but damn, this stuff gets my heart beating rapidly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And to reiterate what I&#8217;ve said already on this blog, I tend to allow my sappiness to show itself when I cry at signature moments while watching documentaries I have seen dozens of times already. It happened today when Neil Armstrong informed the world, &#8220;Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.&#8221; And again, when the Apollo 13 chutes deployed and the astronauts splashed down safely in the ocean.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There truly are heroes still left in this world. Today&#8217;s binge-watching reminded me of what I have known all along.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Oh, and FYI &#8230; I did mow my front lawn.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, kids, it appears that the Artemis II mission to the moon and back had a greater impact on me than I thought it would have. I could have done a lot of things today. The weather is warm and breezy. I could have spent the day outside working on my yard. Instead, I parked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artemis II impact was greater than I thought<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8386],"tags":[420,6707,10544,3126,3182],"class_list":["post-59751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-news","tag-apollo-11","tag-apollo-13","tag-artemis-ii","tag-moon-landing","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59753,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751\/revisions\/59753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}