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As a young boy, I was obsessed with space. I built plastic models of Apollo rockets, painted them carefully, and collected the specially minted commemorative coins that were issued for each mission. The astronauts were heroes of a different order. Now, at 60, that same excitement is back. NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has four humans farther from Earth than …