Hey everyone, it's Audie. This is the assignment. And where were you when Artemis II touchdown?

It's slashed down, sending post-landing command now.

Hey, yes.

Hank, welcome home.

Christina, welcome home. Yes!

It may be one of those stories in the latest chapter of space.

And the stories of space, you know, they evoke a lot of things.

There's joy, there's inspiration, there's fear.

Frankly, there's just like embrace in the face of this very scary news cycle.

It's like a throwback to a simpler time somehow.

Of course, once you dig into it, you realize those times weren't that simple.

But my guest today is astrophysicist, Hakeem Olusheye.

He knows everything there is to know about space.

He used to work at NASA.

And he's going to help me parse through all of

the complicated feelings we have in this new era of space exploration. Stay with us.

So I watched the touchdown of Artemis II, gathered the kids, brought them into the living room,

had it on the big screen, and I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I was scared. I was really scared.

Yeah. Because when I was seven, when I was my children's age, the Challenger disaster, okay, where there had been a teacher in space program.

So all the little kitties had been told to gather around, you know, live feed to the classrooms.

But then when I was in college, there was the Columbia.

And that disaster was on reentry, right? Am I remembering that right? That was in

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