Is America Entering A New ‘Space Age'?

Is America Entering A New ‘Space Age'?

It has been 63 years since JFK promised Americans a moon landing before the end of his term. In his speech, he established the foundation for a promising future with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the most recent creation of the United States government. Following his speech, a new wave of hope cracked open. The first Space Age was born.

The Space Age is filled with childhood nostalgia. In America, cartoons like the Jetsons helped children grasp the vastness of space. You could reach out and feel the warmth of the stars from your living room when you watched the Jetson, and it wasn’t long before NASA began their countdown to the moon landing. The children who remembered the first glimmer of hope when JFK’s speech concluded were invited to cheer the NASA agents on from their TV as they landed on the moon.

Today, we have a similar situation going on. Artemis II, NASA’s most recent launch in the sky, is on its way around the moon. Since the success of Artemis I, people have been discussing the second Artemis mission’s crew and trajectory. Users of the platforms X and Instagram have taken to pages such as Complex to find their news about the mission. This mission coincidentally aligns with the release of Project Hail Mary, creating a noticeable bond between real-time space travel and Hollywood films.

Now on the much bigger screen, you can see Ryan Gosling figure out how to save the Sun from dying out. Box office debuts during the opening weekend of the film were surveyed at around $81 million, and Rotten Tomatoes has handed the film the 'certified fresh’ title. The popularity of space exploration has provided an opportunity for both the eager and the excited to witness real-time space travel and fantasy that have come to life.