Kenneth Chang

It was a very unsettled time in the United States.

And at the end of that year, December of 1968... The engines are armed.

Oh, and there's the rumble in our building.

And that was the equivalent of Artemis II.

It's a beautiful takeoff so far.

It was the first launch of the mighty Saturn V rocket that NASA used then with people aboard.

And the three astronauts on Apollo 8, they went to the moon or visited the moon, and on Christmas Eve... We are now approaching lunar sunrise.

As they were in orbit around the moon.

The three astronauts took turns reading Genesis from the Bible.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And it was such a calming, hopeful moment that some people even talked about how that mission saved 1968.

So we don't know what the four astronauts on Artemis II are planning to say as they are coming back from the moon.

But still,

Just the imagery that's going to come back of them seeing Earth from a quarter million miles away could just provide a moment of calm that makes us realize we are still all part of the same planet.

And perhaps we'll just offer a note of hope that maybe it won't be as turbulent as it seems right now.

Well, Ken, thank you very much.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

I hope it goes off perfectly later today.

Me too.