Nairobi, April 14 -- In 1961, John F. Kennedy promised the American people something that, by any rational measure, should have been impossible: that the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth before the decade was out.

The technology did not yet exist. What existed was the decision to begin. Six decades later, that decision is still paying forward.

On April 1, 2026, NASA's Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carrying four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years.

It was a test flight, one rung on a ladder that future missions will continue to climb. The greatest national achievements are rarely completed in a single term. ...