This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
I'm Holly Gibbs, and in this edition, the joy of Artemis II.
When I woke up this morning, I looked out my back window, and the moon looks a little bit different now.
And I think everybody in town will feel that.
You know, when you look up there, you can see that there's a piece of Ingersoll up there.
We hear from the mayor of a small Canadian town, home to one of the astronauts.
Also on this podcast, a garden supporting people with Parkinson's disease.
We want to just make sure that this garden represents every person in the Parkinson's community,
whether they have the condition, whether they 're a loved one or a friend,
that we 're there for you and that we see you and we hear you.
The woman who's had a memorial bench dedicated to her survival after she had a heart attack at the age of 22.
And my phone, it just wouldn't stop ringing.
I had so many people wanting to volunteer.
I decided to just stop at 10.
The rescue operation, which reunited Molly the dog with her owner one week after they were separated.
Astronauts have made history by going further from Earth than anyone before on the Artemis II mission.
And that wasn't the only record broken by the NASA crew.
Christina Cook became the first woman to travel to deep space,
while Victor Glover became the first person of colour to do so.
Back here on Earth, people have been gripped by watching it,