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The Artemis II mission successfully splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, bringing home four astronauts from a 10-day trip around the moon, a journey of about 700,000 miles.

Now, where is NASA going next, And why is a national space program worth

the taxpayer cost? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by

James B. Meggs, a columnist for the WSJ's Free Expression Newsletter, senior fellow at the Manhattan

Institute, and a former editor of Popular popular mechanics. Welcome to the program,

Jim. Let me start just by getting your reaction to the Artemis II mission. I'm not sure if you were

tuned in for the Apollo launches and the moon landings from 1969 to 72. I was not, but one of the

photos out of Artemis that really grabbed me was the Crescent Earth.

I mean, obviously, everybody's looked up at the night sky and seen a crescent moon,

but the idea of a Crescent Earth is not a thing that really had crossed my mind until recent days.

Yeah, I was definitely one of those kids following every bit of the Apollo program as an elementary school student and a little older. And,

you know, some of that excitement is back here. I followed the Artemis II mission closely,

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