mellowtigger | I didn't know

Last night, I sat down in front of the tv to watch the afternoon news. Near the end of the local news and before the beginning of the national news, the feed switched to cover the Artemis II launch by NASA. I started watching about 7 minutes before ignition. I watched that historic event as it happened, humans once again heading to the moon. Well, more precisely it's going around the moon before returning to Earth.

How did I not know beforehand? I like astronomy. I usually keep up with astronomy sites. I would have rearranged my scheduled to be sure I was at my television during the launch. At the beginning of the news coverage, though, I felt like I had switched to some alternate universe and was seeing their different sequence of historical events. I think maybe I saw something about it many months ago, but I noticed exactly zero news articles recently that would remind me of it happening yesterday.

I'm just tired. Still.