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This speech will never get old. I've really enjoyed animating it. Poster by Marc Keelan-Bishop illustration.

Peer into the capsule, where the crew of Artemis 2 is zero-g hugging. Rise is checking out the view beside a NASA Mission Return Patch and The Canadian Mission Patch.

The seeming darkness of space is really filled with thirteen bits of quoted wisdom overheard during the nine day mission:

• "We just went sci fi."
• "To all of you down there on Earth… we love you, from the moon."
• "Copy. Moon joy."
• "It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."
• "We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."
• "It's a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll."
• "Hey, let's go to the Moon! I think the nation and the world have been waiting a long time to do this again."
• "In all of this emptiness… you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together… you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live."
• "Canada, I am thinking of you, and I am hoping that all of you see your greatness reflected in this journey around the moon. I am just so proud of all of you."
• "Nothing but gratitude for the men and women of this great nation. It is time to fly."
• "Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."
• "If you've ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up."
• "This is one of the most intensely collaborative things that humans do, so many people work on these missions together from all different countries and backgrounds, it represents the best of what we can be."