This newsletter is a part of the mag ZEIT am Wochenend, factor 15/2026
When the Artemis 2 crew headed into the black void with a plume of fiery smoke final Wednesday to probe the a long way facet of the moon in a brand new means and from a brand new distance, it have compatibility completely into one of the crucial tough narratives of our time. In fact, the American president, who has been brazenly threatening the annexation of alternative nations and territories, akin to Greenland, for greater than a yr, despatched a rocket into house. In fact, he needed to show to all the universe who can pass upper, additional, quicker and who will subsequently correctly come to a decision the way forward for the universe. And that in truth method: who could have regulate over the distance at some point. It’s not anything lower than that.
