2003 “The specialists inside Mission Control were well aware that the complex machines they put into space and then hope to bring home again are potential deathtraps,” Newsweek wrote of Space Shuttle Columbia’s explosion. “The rest of us forget, until a tragedy occurs, and the nation and the world are left mourning.” After the Space Shuttle program retired in 2011, NASA initiated the super heavy-lift Space Launch System: Artemis 1 launched last November as its first flight; Artemis 2, set for 2024, will be its first crewed mission and take humans around the moon.