Babies named Loki (US)

American babies named Loki and NASA Artemis program spending, both climbing. The kid is being raised in a house where someone is also tracking SLS schedule slips. The two graphs are united, briefly, by a Marvel-and-mythology decade that rewarded everything cosmic.

NASA Artemis program spending grew from a few hundred million dollars in 2015 to over 7 billion annually by 2022 as the Moon-return programme moved from concept to development and SLS hardware accumulated cost. Loki as a baby name climbed Social Security charts after Marvel character debuts and the 2021 Disney+ series. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same eight years rewarded both a federal lunar-return programme and a Marvel-driven baby-name trend. Different cosmologies, same era.

Two lines about leaving Earth. One literal, one nominal. The decade made room for both.