Welcome to The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

It was a chilly day.

It was a brisk.

It was a brisk spring day here in New York.

But you know where it's even colder?

In space. There's a big update from the

heroes of the Artemis II Lunar Mission because the crew is officially heading home.

That's great.

Glad to hear that everything is working out, but how do I put this, fellas?

Not a great time to return to Earth.

You might,

might want to take a couple of laps around the parking lots

until the explosion stop.

These astronauts have already set up an incredible record,

traveling further from Earth than anyone before,

which means humanity finally has enough miles to reach diamond medallion status.

Now we can all get into the moon's Sapphire Reserve Lounge. They have three

kinds of citrus water and those little wasabi peas. At its farthest, the Artem's 2 reached

252,756 miles from Earth. Or, as the New York Times helpfully put it this morning,

if you took 22-inch doxones

and laid them nose to tail,

you'd need 728 million dogs to cover the distance.

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