So NASA sent another massive titanium tube into space yesterday:
NASA's majestic new rocket soared into space for the first time in the early hours of Wednesday, lighting up the night sky and accelerating on a journey that will take an astronaut-less capsule around the moon and back.
This flight, evoking the bygone Apollo era, is a crucial test for NASA's Artemis program that aims to put astronauts, after five decades of loitering in low-Earth orbit, back on the moon.
And look, they could do this every day, 365 days a year, and it would just never stop being incredible to witness:
Note that our man Dan Dillon got a front-row seat to this beauty as it streaked through the troposphere:
