The Moon has been three days away for more than half a century, and almost no one has stopped to ask what it will feel like when stops being the answer to “how far is the Moon” and starts being the answer to “how long is the flight”

The Moon landing plays in my head like old footage — grainy, familiar, something I’ve seen replayed more times than I’ve thought about it. Somewhere between the miracle it was in 1969 and the wallpaper it’s become since, the Moon quietly stopped being a destination and turned into a fact — a thing that is [...] The post The Moon has been three days away for more than half a century, and almost no one has stopped to ask what it will feel like when stops being the answer to “how far is the Moon” a