Your Kids Asked the Artemis Astronauts Questions. They Answered.
5/6/202634 min
Last month, the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing their journey around the moon to a close.
“The Daily” asked children to send in questions for the crew. The astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — sat down with Rachel Abrams to answer them.
Guest: The Artemis II astronauts: Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman.
Background reading:
- The mission took the astronauts farther than any human has ever traveled in history and reminded us how small we are.
- The Artemis II splashdown gave NASA momentum in a renewed moon race.
Photo: The New York Times
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First 90 secondsEzra Klein0:00
[gentle music] If you find yourself bewildered by this moment where there's so much reason for despair and so much reason to hope all at the same time, let me say I hear you. I'm Ezra Klein from New York Times Opinion, host of The Ezra Klein Show, and for me, the best way to beat back that bewildered feeling is to talk it out with the people who have ideas and frameworks for making sense of it. There is going to be plenty to talk about. You can find The Ezra Klein Show wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 10:27
Zoom, zoom, zoom. We're going to the Moon. If you wanna take a trip, climb aboard my rocket ship. Zoom, zoom, zoom. We're going to the Moon.
Rachel Abrams· Host0:45
[upbeat music] From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. Two weeks ago, we asked if you or, more specifically, your kids had questions for the Artemis II astronauts.
Speaker 31:04
Hello. My name is Mateo.
Speaker 41:07
Hi. I'm Isla Renovar. I'm Noah.
Speaker 51:09
Hi. My name is Benjamin Souza.
Speaker 31:11
My name is Owen. I'm three years old.
Rachel Abrams· Host1:14
Kids definitely had questions.
Speaker 31:17
How yummy was the food? I think they ate stars. [laughs] Did the Moon made out of cheese?
Speaker 41:26
[laughs] How did you get to the Moon without using Google Maps?