Hayley Caronia

And it's OK to have fun talking about these things.

So last disclaimer, last time I covered the moon landing, I got a lot of emails.

I got a lot of emails.

I got a lot of DMs.

If you feel the urge to send me a message, a DM, an email, very long, you know, telling me that I'm dumb, I promise you I won't read it.

Don't waste your time.

And with that said, let's get into it.

So the Artemis 2 takeoff happened, like I said, on April Fool's Day earlier this week.

Now riddle me that.

Could they have picked another day?

I

I think probably.

I don't know why they would have picked it in the middle of the week.

It seems kind of random.

Seems like they might be playing in our faces, but okay.

This mission will be 10 days long, and the crew comprises of four astronauts, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen with the Canadian Space Agency.

So...

This is the first time anyone has attempted to send a crew to the moon in over 50 years.

Artemis II was never supposed to land on the moon, like I've said, but it's going to fly around it to test the capsule with humans on it.

It's going to travel 252,799 miles away from Earth, which is 4,100 miles longer than the Apollo 13 mission.