NASA sent a rocket into space, sending astronauts on a journey around the moon that took humankind farther into space than we have ever been. And it was a story for, maybe, 48 hours.
I'm not a space freak, but that feels like a pretty big deal in humankind and should have been in the main news flow for a while.
“Liftoff. At 6:35 pm ET on April 2, a Space Launch System rocket lifted an Orion capsule from Earth. On board were Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. As of Thursday, they became the first humans to go beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.” — Wired
The mission was probably in the news for a long time, but it depends on people's interests and attention spans, and on whether anyone cares.
I didn't pay enough attention to it, myself. Space has not been on my radar for a long time. Since the Challenger disaster, to be exact. I imagine with billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos building companies to rocket rich people to space, there's more interest than I see throughout the day. I mean, we do have a Space Force now.
We live in such a bifurcated world that it's hard to get everyone on the same page for more than a couple of days on anything important.
Unless it has to do with Trump. And most of that by the people who hate him.