You've got NASA's Artemis 2 mission returning to Earth today after their 10-day lunar mission, the spacecraft Orion,

entering the most critical phase, re-entry, and then splash down.

You know, going to the moon is hard, coming home, possibly even harder.

24,000 miles per hour through the atmosphere at 5,000 degrees. The crew that floated

Nutella knows what they're doing. These NASA has said there is no plan B. The crew knew this.

They chose it. They signed up anyway. That is what you can call heroism.

The scariest part about this is Artemis 1.

The heat shields cracked.

And they didn't make any changes.

Yeah.

And they still went up there anyway, knowing that the ship before the one they were on didn't perform 100%.

Yeah, this has been a big celebration up until this point. We had the successful rocket launch.

We had them going around the moon, traveling farther away from Earth than any human has ever

traveled before. We've got the prospect of a moon landing of putting people on the surface

of the moon again, probably in 2028. This has been a big celebration, but the riskiest part of it

happens tonight. They're projecting that splashdown will happen just after 8 o'clock this evening,

just off the coast of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean. And look, I remember in 2003

when Columbia exploded. I remember exactly where we were. We were at our old house in

northern Indiana, just outside of South Bend and saw that. And at that point in time,

the problem with Columbia at the time was the heat shield upon re-entry. So this is, this is a tenuous time. Think about it

like the movie Apollo 13. At the end of that movie, the space capsule had to come back to Earth,

and they weren't sure if things were damaged, and it was a very tense moment and a very moving part

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