What I realise is that the cameras on cellphones are now so advanced that they are not using the devices for real-time communication but primarily to take photos (for science) and video clips (for social media). Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had no Instagram or TikTok to shoot for - lucky them. The only algorithms they had to bother with were the ones guiding the lander to touchdown. But this time around, space has been embedded in our social feeds, sitting alongside carefully-arranged latte art, holiday dumps, and gym selfies. The extraterrestrial has been made domestic. While the crew of the Apollo 11's task was to prove that a human could go to the moon, Artemis 2 perhaps had a different mission: to bring all the other human beings along with them on the journey. Instead of asking the question "can we do this?", Artemis 2 seems to ask: "how does it feel to do this?" (Substack)