Neil Freiman
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Essentially, these are too big to fail.
And the fact that the Federal Reserve is there, they deal with systemic risk.
And that's why I think this is a very important meeting to talk about.
Welcome to Winners of the Weekend, the segment where we pick two things from the news that are getting fitted for their green jacket.
I won the pre-show triathlon, so I get to go first.
And my winner is Artemis 2 for successfully completing their mission to the moon and back, but maybe more importantly, for getting people excited about human space travel again.
On Friday night, the crew of four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
and have since been reunited with their families.
These folks now hold the record for the humans who've traveled furthest from Earth, more than a quarter of a million miles away around the backside of the moon.
As NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said, it was a mission well accomplished.
The goal was to test out the Orion spacecraft ahead of a future lunar landing, and that spacecraft performed remarkably well.
There were a few issues that NASA will have to fix ahead of upcoming missions, most notably the malfunctioning toilet.
But other than that, things went according to plan, so according to plan, in fact,
that the astronauts were scheduled to splash down on Earth at 8.07 p.m.
Eastern Friday night, and they landed exactly at 8.07 p.m.
Google Maps can't even get that right when I'm driving 15 minutes away, let alone hurtling back to Earth after 10 days in outer space, piercing the atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour.
Toby, it's all smiles in Houston after Artemis II, but now the attention turns to Artemis III and Artemis IV.
Can NASA keep up the momentum?
They absolutely won the PR battle with this because, I mean, NASA is competing for our attention, just like Justin Bieber and YouTube, just like TikTok.
They want to prove that spaceflight is cool because they're fighting for dollars from the federal government.