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How to love the moon mission without guilt

Problems down on Earth are serious. Spending some time looking up isn’t a waste or distraction

Published April 7, 2026 12:06PM (EDT)

Whenever someone likes to claim that the moon landing was faked — a fairly tedious conversation, even as conspiracy theories go — my general response is to ask, “OK, which one?” Most people seem to forget that there were six total crewed landings, all of them conducted by the U.S. government between 1969 and 1972. Aside from some robotic probes, no other country has put human beings on the massive rock that orbits our home planet.

Apollo 11 is the most famous of those, of course, but it almost seems that the main reason humans haven’t been back up there in 54 years is because we got bored, which is pretty remarkable in and of itself. We achieved something so mind-blowing that no other species could comprehend it, let alone accomplish it, something that truly speaks to rising above our animal nature, demonstrating the absolute limits that humanity can reach while opening the potential for even larger ambitions. Yet we kinda shrugged about the moon and moved on, at least until very recently. Was it really such a big deal to begin with?

There have been countless other important space-related milestones since Apollo 17, our last moon visit, but what’s more dramatic than bouncing around in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and smacking golf balls between lunar craters? It’s why the conspiracies claiming we never went there are so unappealing, not to mention completely lacking in evidence. If, for some reason, America decided to lie about visiting the moon in ‘69 — a claim so thoroughly debunked it’s not even worth engaging with here, but I have been yelled at for trying to explain long exposure, etc. — technology has clearly evolved to the point that there’s nothing stopping us from going there now. Well, unless you count public sentiment.

Through NASA’s Artemis program, the U.S. government is trying to get us back on the moon’s surface soon, part of the new space race — this time against China, not the USSR. But it would appear that many Americans aren’t all that invested in who wins. “Americans have never been all that excited about going to the moon,” the New York Times reported last week, citing Pew Research data that suggests........

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