Madame Moon: It’s official. The moon is a girl. Or so says the NASA of 2026. She’s calling us, and we’re ready, said a NASA spokeswoman ahead of the coming circumnavigation, a ten-day voyage now set to launch later today. This gender revelation puts the moon in league with sea vessels, forever female for luck and the women left behind. Throughout the moon missions of the sixties and seventies, the Earth’s running mate was a barren “it,” the most impersonal of pronouns. Why the change? Maybe the moon has recently taken to popping estrogen. It will now be up to a new set of astronauts to take her majesty’s wedding gown details and post them to Instagram.