In the long arc of human exploration, there are moments when the species pauses to acknowledge how far it has dared to go. This August, President Trump will honour four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — with the Congressional Space Medal of Honour, recognising their April journey aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft as the farthest any humans have ever travelled from Earth. The Artemis II mission, a ten-day lunar orbit flight, carried not only scientific purpose but historic firsts that widened the circle of who belongs among the stars. In doing so, it qui