Your Kids Asked the Artemis Astronauts Questions. They Answered.
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Zoom, zoom, zoom, we're going to the moon. |
| 0:06.0 | If you want to take a trip, climb aboard my rocket shift. |
| 0:11.2 | Zoom, zoom, we're going to the moon. |
| 0:19.8 | From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily. |
| 0:27.3 | Two weeks ago, we asked if you, or more specifically, your kids, had questions for the Artemis II astronauts. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, my name is Matthew. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi, I'm I'm Eleanor Anavar. Hi, My name is Matthew. |
| 0:37.6 | Hi, I'm Ila Renegovar. |
| 0:39.3 | Hi, my name is Benjamin Sousa. |
| 0:41.6 | My name is Owen. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm three years old. |
| 0:44.8 | Kids definitely had questions. |
| 0:49.4 | How yummy what the food? |
| 0:51.4 | I think they ate stars. |
| 0:54.4 | The moon made out of cheese? |
| 0:56.9 | How did you get to the moon without using Google Maps? |
| 1:02.1 | Kids wanted to know about life on board the spaceship, about the wonder and the vastness of space. |
| 1:08.1 | Were you scared? |
| 1:09.5 | Because I would be scared. |
| 1:12.3 | Why did they go on the mission thing when it was super duper, doper, duper, duper whiskey? |
| 1:20.5 | My question for the Artemis crew is, how do you think people will look back at this mission in 50 years? |
| 1:27.1 | And today, we posed these questions to the astronauts themselves. |
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