Christina Koch

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205 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and the Artemis II Crew: To the Moon and Back · 12 May 2026 podcast

And I say that because

So in my high school, someone donated a statue of me.

And it made me uneasy.

Something about it just didn't sit perfectly well with me.

And it wasn't just my humility or something like that.

And I finally put my finger on it.

I was worried that the people that would walk through the door and see it would think that they weren't enough.

because that statue was too perfect of a representation.

And at the little speech making that I did when it opened, I made sure to talk about the person I was in high school and how unsure I was of myself, how many mistakes I made, how many people I hurt, people that hurt me.

And I just wanted them to know that they don't have to be as perfect as the statue.

And sometimes, right now, I feel like this crew is a little bit like that statue.

We, in being here and talking about the superlatives, it doesn't tell the whole story because

We have a long story, a lot of people behind us, a lot of missteps, a couple of victories.

But all that came together to make us these people that very humanly carried everyone's dreams around the far side of the moon.

But before we did that, we were enough.

And I would say to them, you are too.

I did.

I had those conversations with my husband and

He knew I was working on a will.

He was aware of the risks.

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