Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
As NASA’s Artemis II mission — the first crewed flight around the Moon in over half a century — gets underway, some in the media couldn’t resist injecting race into humanity’s greatest technical achievement.
Instead of celebrating the engineering triumph and the daring crew pushing the boundaries of exploration, certain outlets fixated on skin colour and “representation.” This is the same crowd that claims to champion science, yet they reduce every milestone to identity politics.
A Sky News reporter declared that the Apollo missions to the Moon “didn’t represent humanity because ‘Apollo was all white men…’” highlighting how even lunar history must now be filtered through the lens of grievance.
They couldn’t even exclude a manned moon mission, a stepping stone to colonising Mars, from this twisted obsession.
In a separate incident, a reporter attempted to goad NASA astronaut Victor Glover, pilot on Artemis II and incidentally the first person of colour to venture beyond low Earth orbit on a lunar mission, into giving a DEI soundbite.
Glover’s response, however, was a masterclass in sanity, as he responded, “I hope one day we can look at this as human history, not black history or women’s history.”
Glover’s crew — including commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialist Christina Koch (the first woman to fly this far), and Canadian Jeremy Hansen — represents the best of merit-based selection, not quotas. Yet the race-obsessed can’t let it stand on its own.
X users weren’t having any of the nonsense. One sharp reply nailed the absurdity: “No mission will ever represent humanity until we have the world’s first trans, non-binary, dual spirit, free Palestine astronaut of color!”
This fixation isn’t new. During Apollo, the focus was on beating the Soviets and landing on the Moon — full stop. No one paused the Saturn V countdown to lecture about demographics.
The 650 million people glued to their TVs in 1969 weren’t obsessing over the astronauts’ skin color; they were witnessing what free people, driven by merit and competition, could achieve. Now, as Artemis II builds on that foundation toward Mars, the same voices demand we rewrite the past to fit today’s dogma.
Real progress comes from excellence, not enforced outcomes. The Moon — and eventually Mars — doesn’t care about race quotas. It demands the sharpest minds and the boldest spirits. That’s the spirit that built Apollo and will get us back there and beyond.
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