All hail NASA’s Martian InSight

NASA’s latest triumphant landing of a spacecraft on Mars should inspire us to reinvigorate our own capacity for wonder.

While many national outlets dutifully covered Monday’s landing of InSight lander (and this publication provided wonderful live coverage), I still don’t get the sense that the general public is excited, or even more than mildly interested, by it. This is, after all, the eighth successful landing of a human craft on the Martian surface, so the novelty long ago wore off.