Toby Howell

It was all smiles in Houston, but there was some tears actually being shed in the living room that I was watching with my fiance's family because there is just something about astronauts returning home that it hits you in the feels.

You're just so happy they're safe.

They went through so much.

And I just want to read some of the quotes from the crew.

Victor Glover said, I have not processed what we just did, and I'm afraid to even start trying.

Jeremy Hansen said, when you look up here, you're not looking at us.

We're a mirror reflecting you.

Christina Koch said, Earth is just this lifeboat hanging undisturbedly in the universe.

And Reid Wiseman, the captain of the mission, said, I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working right now.

The memes from this trip were very funny, as was the heartfelt feeling that, man, humanity is just this very unique species sitting on a rock in space.

Not just poets, photographers too, because the Artemis II team did photography training before they went up in the capsule because they said they wanted to tell a story.

They wanted to capture the awe and grandeur.

You can't just do that

Like, if I just went up there with my iPhone, I'm not taking the pictures that they did.

So that was one awesome thing.

And then one final thing I want to leave people with is there is this space simulator game called Kerbal Space Program.

It's pretty niche, honestly.

It's about building and flying rockets for a species of green aliens called kerbals.

But after Artemis II landed,

The player count hit an all-time high, which just shows that the next generation is excited about space travel.