Overview
- The four Artemis II astronauts joined a CBS Mornings town hall Friday, fielding questions from students in a live, hour-long special.
- Jeremy Hansen described reentry as the best roller coaster ride ever and detailed seeing plasma colors outside Orion during the fiery descent.
- Christina Koch surprised 5-year-old Jack Wineski of Georgia with a signed orange spacesuit marked commander after his launch-day interview went viral.
- Students from New York City schools and NASA HUNCH finalists took part, and the special featured appearances by Ron Howard and Bill Nye.
- The outreach follows the April 10 splashdown that ended a near 700,000-mile lunar flyby, the first human trip beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.