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If you're like me, I've loved following the progress of the Artemis 2 mission, listening for updates and imagining what the astronauts are seeing as they fly past the moon.

I've been using a dashboard to follow its speed, distance from Earth, distance from moon.

Sometimes as I'm working, I've been listening to the communication

between mission control and Houston and the astronauts on Orion. The live video updates have been

fun to watch too. Also, did you know that my very first podcast episode was about Neil Armstrong

and the Apollo Moon mission? That was many years ago when no one knew

about bedtime history. And later my first YouTube video was about Neil Armstrong too. It

now has over a million views, even podcasts like mine have small beginnings. But it's fun

for me to think about the astronauts looking out the window at the gray crater-covered surface, seeing Earth far in the distance as a small blue sphere.

Their journey reminds us that space exploration is continuing, and this mission is helping prepare for future missions

that may land astronauts on the moon again.

As Artemis II continues its journey,

many people are feeling the same sense of curiosity

and wonder that humans have felt for thousands of years

when looking up at the moon.

People have always been fascinated by the moon.

It is the brightest object in the night sky after the sun,

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