The apollo program led to tech advancements including, among many of things, fire-retardent materials, improved parachute technologies, water filtration systems and insulin pumps, each of which has directly saved lives. Not to mention solar cells technology that will be instrumental in fighting climate change.

The moon is a big barren rock, yes. But it is one that has answers to our planets history and potentially its future. Funding scientific and engineering endeavors like Artemis is how we, as a species, advance, how we move beyond the status quo of today’s world. There are WAAAAAAAY more wasteful things we spend money on than science. And while you’re entitled to think otherwise, you’re just wrong.

Also that you think they timed a moon mission to be a distraction for a month old war… like the original launch wasn’t planned years in advance, and it was delayed anyway. There is something to distract from every fucking week now. That doesnt mean that anything else happening is a deliberate distraction or even remotely related to it. Too cynical to function.