What can we learn about the future of humanity from the Artemis II mission?
Over fifty years after Apollo, four humans travelled a quarter of a million miles from home, looked back at their planet, and came back with something more valuable than lunar data.
We're living through a genuine inflection point of humanity, be it technologically, ecologically, socially, and into that moment, Artemis II didn't just break a new spaceflight record. In the words of Jeremy Hansen, it handed us a mirror.
In this week's Anthropology of Technology pod, we unpack what the most significant crewed space mission of the 21st century actually reveals about us as humans and how to navigate this next era.
We explore what the crew said when they came home about gratitude, about what it means to be a crew, and about the kind of species we prove we are when we actually decide to work together.
Our only notes: Earth is the most abundant planet in this solar system. The harder expedition is figuring out how to remember that and that we’re all on the same team.