Last week’s nine-day space flight around the moon could not have come at a better time for a fractured world. It did something badly needed — it offered hope for something better than missiles, bombs, destruction and death.

And while cynics like me usually don’t support the sort of happy-clappy conversations that came from the Artemis II crew, their talk of love and peace was a welcome relief from the vulgar, derisive warmongering going on here on Earth.

Artemis II reminded us that we all live together on a fragile planet affected by everything we do. While I held out little or no hope for “peace for our time,” for all of those nine days many of us sat in awe, listening to articulate people speak the truth. We hope it was to power, reminding us of the reality we share.

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But the history so many ignore, the history that turned Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “promise” of peace if Hitler was “allowed” to annex part of what was then Czechoslovakia, turned out to be risible. The British prime minister is now remembered for the failure to appease a murderous tyrant.

Living in perilous times, the encouraging words from space may not........

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