Artemis II Completes Historic Journey Around the Moon

“Today you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. Well, I look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office. And I’ll ask for your autograph, because I don’t really ask for autographs much, but you deserve that. You really are something. Everybody is talking about this.” “Orion has come back around the other side of the moon. And that little crescent that you see is Earth, over 252,000 miles away.” “And it is so great to hear from Earth again. To Asia, Africa and Oceania, we are looking back at you. “We are Earth bound and ready to bring you home.” “We’ve got to explore. We got to go further, to expand our knowledge, expand our horizons.” “I’m not ready to go home. I can’t believe that something this cramped of quarters, can fly by and still be fun every single minute.