This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** NASA’s Artemis II crew made history by venturing further than humans had ever gone before. But they also accomplished another spectacular feat: inspiring the rest of us with genuine “moon joy.” And they only had to fly 248,655 miles from Earth to do it. All of America fell in love with the crew members during their nearly 10-day mission, which began April 1. We knew there was something special brewing when we saw pilot Victor Glover tell each of his four daughters, “I love you,” just before launch. Mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen laughed with their loved ones. And commander Reid Wiseman flashed heart hands for his daughters, who made their widowed dad “moon cupcakes” to celebrate the moment he was chosen for the mission. We’re not crying; you’re crying.  They may have prepped for every possible scenario, but even NASA was surprised by the happiness on board. “This is a great example of why we go and do these missions,” NASA administrator Amit Kshatriya said. “If you can’t take love to the stars, then what are we doing?” With a batch of cookies from home, the cutest baseball-capped plushie, a bird’s eye view of humanity, and a message rooted in faith, here’s how the Artemis II crew touched our hearts and made life on Earth something to celebrate.  The ’80s sitcom intro: The crew cut together the most heartwarming ‘80s sitcom intro for space travel we’ve ever seen, edited to the “Full House” theme song. Featuring each astronaut as our favorite recurring character, it showed crew members looking up from their work with megawatt smiles straight into the camera. “We were doing scenes from bad ’80s sitcoms,” Reid Wiseman explained. “We are cracking up, up here.” That authentic camaraderie has us crossing our fingers for an invite to the next zero-gravity backyard barbecue. Even if you never saw the original TV series, the lyrics sent us to the moon: “Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a heart, a hand to hold onto … When you’re lost out there and you’re all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home.” Rise: America’s cutest zero-gravity indicator: Serving as the fifth member of the crew, adorable baseball-sized plushie Rise (designed by second-grader Lucas Ye as part of a worldwide contest) had plenty to do onboard. Inspired by Apollo 8’s iconic “Earthrise” photo, Rise served as a smiley indicator of weightlessness for the astronauts. But the design also featured a zipper pocket that held a digital memory card loaded with over 5.6 million names of people joining the mission. “We always say that we’re going for all, and by all,” Reid Wiseman shared. “Zipping that little pocket on the bottom of Rise was kind of the moment that put it all together for me.” The reminder to share the love: Just before the Artemis II crew briefly lost contact with mission control as they flew past the dark side of the moon, Victor Glover shared a powerful message about his faith. “I would like to remind you of one of the most important mysteries on Earth, and that’s love,” Glover said. “Christ said in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are. And He also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it. And that is to love your neighbor as yourself.” Assuring everyone that there’s no distance too great, he added, “As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we’re still going to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the moon.” The lunar marker for Carroll: Reid Wiseman lost his wife Carroll Taylor Wiseman to cancer in 2020 when she was 46. But the crew held her memory close when they named a lunar crater in her honor on April 6. “We lost a loved one; her name was Carroll,” Jeremy Hansen said. Describing that the location would be visible from Earth, he added, “It’s a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it ‘Carroll.’” Not a dry eye in the house, the crew held onto each other during one of the most moving moments of the mission. The unifying Easter message: Victor Glover dropped the mic with his impromptu reflections on April 4, the day before Easter. “I can really see Earth as one thing,” Glover shared of his elevated perspective. “You’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos … You are special in all of this emptiness … You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.” Inviting everyone around the world to strive toward unity, he invited us to “Remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing and that we gotta get through this together.” Other great moments from Artemis II:  Victor Glover’s daughter Maya’s viral dance celebrating her dad, while wearing a T-shirt printed with a picture of Victor in a space suit. The late Apollo-era astronaut Jim Lovell’s message to the crew: “Welcome to my old neighborhood.” The iconic Canadian maple cream cookie break on the dark side of the moon. The Easter eggs hidden around the cabin: “They were the dehydrated scrambled egg variety,” Koch said. “But we’re all pretty happy with them.”  The jar of Nutella’s great escape. The crew wearing paper solar glasses to watch the lunar eclipse — just like us! The official Artemis II playlist: NASA released the full playlist of wake-up songs, but each astronaut revealed their favorite. Jeremy Hansen picked “Under Pressure” by David Bowie, Victor Glover chose “Good Morning” by Mandisa, and Christina Koch selected “Sleepyhead” by Young & Sick. While he refused to take responsibility for Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” Reid Wiseman said he and his daughters chose “Tokyo Drifting” by Glass Animals.  The kid who told reporters why he was excited to witness the launch: “We’re going back to the f*ckin’ moon, that’s why.” Artemis III is scheduled to launch sometime in 2027 to test docking tech, and in 2028, Artemis IV will put humans back on the moon. As launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson said, “Artemis and Artemis II remind us that our greatest chapters are yet to be written.”