From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

This galvanizing, can-do ethos set the tone for a generation of space exploration that seeps into pop culture to this day. Except it’s all grown more complicated. For one, the moon is now old hat.

Apollo astronauts peed into roll-on cuffs and pooped into bags in the presence of their crewmates, but the Artemis 2 crew ...