Dreaming beyond a troubled Earth, by Osmund Agbo The American space agency, NASA, is poised to launch Artemis II, a landmark crewed mission that will carry four astronauts on an approximately ten-day flyby around the Moon and back. This will mark humanity’s first journey beyond low Earth orbit in more than half a century. Scheduled for liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center early this year, the mission is designed to rigorously test life support, navigation, and deep space systems aboard the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket. Although Artemis...