What you’re missing is that Apollo took on the name of Phoebe, a moon goddess, after her death. His full name is properly Phoebus Apollo. Also, Apollo was god of light, not the sun (that’s Helios).

I’d either be singing “Walking On The Moon” by The Police or “Shout!” by the Isley Brothers, but to each their own. ^_^

But yeah, how could you not want to fool around a little up there? I mean, it’s the MOON! I get all excited just thinking about going there!

I remember reading somewhere that NASA was actually planning Artemis missions after Apollo, but the space program got cut back drastically before they could be put into action.

Don’t know if it’s true or not, but it totally bums me out that we sent astronauts to the moon a few times, then the government decided that since the military couldn’t make use of it to nuke the Commies, there was no real point in continuing space exploration to any serious degree. I don’t care how much it costs, we need a human-led mission to Mars! The Pentagon can do without its high-tech toys for a few years while we do something worthwhile with our tax dollars for a change!

Now I’m imagining the guy that did the voice of the Guide in the BBC Miniseries version reading the footnote from Monday’s strip. Complete with a video clip of Shaenon making weird noises as she draws.

And it all works perfectly, that’s the scary part!

Put on my new space suit
And I got off my ship …
Stepped down on the Ma-re Cri-si-um
And I did a little hop and skip!
Lovely lady Lovelace,
I think we’ll get along just fine …
You sound like Jennifer Connelly;
Do you like to game online?

Yes, I’m slouching on Moonbase …
Slouching with my hands in the pockets of trou …
Slouching on Moonbase …
Gonna smoke and stink the place up now …

I actually work at NASA.  When I was in a group doing programming, about 1/2 the guys in my group were infatuated with Jennifer Connelly.

I haven’t polled my current group.  I may have to do that just to see if geeky 30-something guys with esp. geeky jobs are still fans of hers.