Here in 2026, something remarkable has happened: humanity, for the first time since the Apollo era, has returned to the Moon. Despite all of our technological, computational, materials science, rocketry, and manufacturing advances that had occurred since 1972, no human had left the confines of even low-Earth orbit, just a few hundred kilometers up above Earth’s atmosphere, in 54 years. All of those advances had never been applied — with the appropriate long-term commitment of resources — to sending humans out into the Universe to explore, with their own eyes, bodies, and experiences, the vast abyss of space. And then, from April 1st to April 11th of 2026, just like that, we did. The culmination of years of work by thousands of scientists, engineers, technicians, and support staff, not only brought humans back to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, but carried them farther away from Earth than any human had ever traveled before.…