Hours before NASA's Artemis 2 moon crew reveal, I saw a neat slice of space history

huge moon is attached to the ceiling of a museum. to the right is a big display saying "We are going back to the moon"

HOUSTON — On a humming museum floor, I came face-to-face with a NASA astronaut in the shadow of the moon.

I was next to an image of Jessica Watkins, who in 2022 completed the first long-duration mission by a Black woman astronaut. (She flew on SpaceX's Crew-4 flight to the International Space Station.) Watkins' face adorned the front of a new Artemis program exhibit I swooped in to visit on April 2. Overhead was a ginormous moon model, complete with craters.