HOUSTON, TX—Having successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and re-establishing contact with mission control after an expected 40-minute communication blackout, astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission's Orion spacecraft confirmed the Moon was an egg. "It is so great to hear from Earth again," said Mission Specialist Christina Koch before going on to confirm that "the Moon is indeed just a big ass egg. Its pretty dang tasty looking from this close-up, Houston." The confirmation from the Artemis II crew set those working in the Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston into rapturous applause at the monumental discovery, with many participating in egg-and-spoon races to celebrate. "As we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever travelled from planet Earth, we do so in honouring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration. As well as in the pursuit of the what we now know as the eggy goodness enclosed within the shell of the Moon," said Mission Specialist Jeremey Hansen, the first Canadian and soon-to-be American after Canada becomes the 51st U.S. state to travel beyond low Earth orbit and in the vicinity of the Moon. At press time, NASA began altering future Artemis missions planned in 2027 and 2028, hoping to attach a massive egg cup to the Moon.