ZORA: NEWHAM STAR POWER

TO MOST people across the world, the US president Donald Trump represents the neg­ative side of America. The positive is reflect­ed in the stunning Artemis II moon mission.

Having logged on to the live streaming of the return of the four astronauts to Planet Earth, it was worth staying up late to witness the exhilarating drama unfold on television. It was gripping stuff to see the Orion spacecraft named Integrity emerge from the skies, and float down to the Pacific Ocean after the para­chutes had opened. And then a raft was built round the capsule to give it stability so that the astronauts could be winched up by helicopter and flown to the deck of the waiting mother ship, the USS John P Murtha.