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Heading home: Artemis II crew share their most precious thoughts after moon mission

Still beaming after their historic lunar flyby, the crew of NASA's Artemis II have been sharing their thoughts about their landmark voyage into space, their view of our 'fragile' planet and what they're most looking forward to as the record- breaking trip nears its head.

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00:00I've actually been thinking about entry since April 3rd, 2023, when we got assigned to this
00:05mission. And one of the first press conferences we were asked, what are we looking forward to?
00:08And I said, splashdown. And it's kind of humorous, but it's literal as well, that
00:14we have to get back. Part of our ethos as a crew and our values from the very beginning were
00:19that this is a relay race. In fact, we have batons that we bought to symbolize physically
00:25that. We plan to hand them to the next crew. And every single thing that we do is with them
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00:30mind. It hasn't changed my perspective or the perspective that I launched with. The perspective
00:35I launched with was that we live on a fragile planet in the vacuum, in the void of space. We
00:43know this from science. We're very fortunate to live on planet Earth. And we all pretty much broke
00:49down right there. And just for me personally, that was kind of the pinnacle moment of the
00:55mission for me. That was, I think, where the four of us were the most forged, the most bonded.
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