I'd have preferred the mission to include a LOI and TEI as in Apollo 8, but testing the hardware with people on board even on a purely circumlunar trajectory accomplished a test of the craft and equipment in a safe way while at the same time bringing public attention to the program. Apollo 8 ran a lot of risks that today would be difficult to justify. So far, I have followed the mission a bit at a distance - not seen anything live - but I like what I see. As for the comparisons with Apollo 13, Jim Lovell recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his passing and he was obviously happy to have more astronauts following in his footsteps. I'd say with 500% accuracy that his feelings in the matter beat any opinion anyone else could have about it, because he was a Space Jock and you are not.

No, spazzes. Like you.

I can barely imagine the harsh, brutal and totally deserved beatings and brown-swirlings a pedantic geek like you were subjected to.

Good, the Spice would have mutated them over generations.

Bomb them. Bomb them into submission. Pound them into the ground, then piss on the ground. What can the frunch/franch/french people do? Oh yeah, right. They can show up to our shores and gloriously SURRENDER so we'll have to feed them. Darn.

Do you prefer "spazz", "windowlicker" or "mongo bongo"?

Suicide! Suicide! Suicide NOW!

How does it feel, nerdinhos? Hunh? The FBI and all of law enforcement have a red-hot rusty knife held to your zit-ridden faces ready to slice and explode your festering pustules! You though you were so clever, now you'll pay the price! All of your filthy pedocompulsions shall be made public! Your game is through, pedo-nerds! You'll be detected, found, snatched, exposed and punished! You will be beaten, your limbs twisted and pulled until they lose shape, your fat bellies jumped upon until they distend and your very essence is defecated out of your bruised carcasses! Your faces will be shitted upon, aye, your faces will be shitted upon until your last flatulent breath is finally exhaled through layers of feces! Such is your fate, nerdinhos!

Yes, you are. A small, dwindling minority that can and will be safely ignored. Have you considered suicide?

Hint: not thanks to Tinder.

Have you considered suicide?

Sunglasses on, cue The Who.

Keep dreaming, euroboy. A deal is not an alliance and Australia already showed you that. :)

Not going to happen, you'll see. It would already have happened decades ago.

We've been waiting since 1992 and we'll keep on waiting until 2992. Europe always looks backwards. They never rise to catch the lightning, to ride the new wave: always playing it safe. Just wait and see: this scary new thing will go away. And then the scary thing stays, and becomes bigger and bigger. Just wait and see: it's a temporary fad, it will burst like a bubble. But then the scary thing takes over and it's: the nasty 'murricans are envious of us superior yooropeans and they hold us down with their nasty 'murrican things! And they keep doing that over and over again.