Fly Me To The Moon #382 By Hank Silverberg My heart skipped a beat as I watched the Artemis II spacecraft lift off from Cape Canaveral this past week. I was immediately taken back to that 13 and 14 year-old kid who watched the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960's and early 1970's. There was hope that by this time in the 21st century we would see the final frontier not as an expensive mission to beat the Russians to the Moon and keep the Cold War--cold, but rather as a mission to expand man's knowledge of the universe and take us where no human has gone before. This past week I kept thinking about Apollo 18, 19, and 20, which were cancelled by the Nixon Administration. There were a number of reasons, but mostly it was the price tag that lead to the decision to scrub the missions, some of which were headed to the dark side of the Moon. When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July...