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Now, the four astronauts had a special guest tag along on their historic trip.
And you can see it's a plushy mascot named Rise, just floating around with the astronauts.
You may have caught it.
Rise was doing its job as a zero-gravity indicator, showing the astronauts that they, yes, in fact, achieved weightlessness.
So, the smiling moon wearing an Earth baseball cap was actually created by 8-year-old Lucas Ye of Northern California.
The Bay Area second-grader, who is an avid space enthusiast, put some historic touches into the design.
This is the Apollo on the right side, and it's and it's the past moon mission, and this is the space launch system.
I especially did the designs and the idea.
This is the footprint uh made by Neil Armstrong on 1969 when he wrote on Apollo 11.
Lucas and Rise, you just make me smile.
Joining us now is Lucas Ye and his mom, Claire Ye from NASA Ames in Mountain View.
Hi there. Good to see you, Lucas.
What has this been like for you to see Rise up in space and have so many people enjoying your creation?
Well, I don't know. It Pretty cool, I would say. Tell Tell me about Rise and what he's been going through up in space right now. And now coming down with the splashdown.
stuffed toy can tell like uh zero gravity or something.
I absolutely love the design.
Let me ask you this, Lucas.
Do you get to have Rise back? What happens with Rise?
You know, um I don't think we know. No one knows.
That's up for grabs, huh?
Oh, everyone kind of wants to know Oh,
do you have one right there? Look at that. Everyone wants to know really where can we buy one? And are you making more?
Oh god.
How [laughter] long? We can make one. Uh a month.
It's taking quite a while.
>> let's talk about Rise. And tell me about kind of the the face and how you came up with it, Lucas.
Give me some of the insight into your drawing.
There were some names. What did you do?
Well, like I just came up with the iconic Earth Rise that took on Apollo 8.
And then I thought of the deep space between the moon and Earth.
And then I made I made like a two little rockets.
One is the Apollo, and one is the SLS.
Wow. And that's representing the past and future missions. Uh
Yeah.
It's amazing.
Yeah, go ahead, Claire. Let us Let us see more. Show us, Lucas.
This is Carol.
Um that that was one of the craters
that the four astronauts found that NASA couldn't identify.
And here's Integrity, another crater that NASA didn't see. So, they named both of them Carol and Integrity.
Claire, what's this like for you being able to see Rise um and that your son's creation is really uh made it to the moon and back?
Uh oh, it's uh it's uh out of this world.
>> [laughter]
>> I feel really I feel beyond proud of Lucas, and I also feel very humbled witnessing everything that has happened in the past 10 days.
So, um it's really uh wonderful watching humanity's returning to the moon. And uh we're all part of that. It is quite remarkable. And you know, we're just in a countdown right now to splashdown.
Where will you both be watching this?
Uh we're currently here at NASA Ames, Mountain View, close to our home.
And uh we will be watching with real engineers, real the hero and some heroes behind the scene, and celebrating with them.
So, we're very grateful that we can be here with them.
with them. And Lucas and Claire, while we are talking to you, we're actually watching live images of the astronauts as they're getting ready for splashdown within the hour. We'll be covering that here right here on CBS News 24/7.
Thank you so much.
Lucas, thank you. And we'll talk to you when uh all all is clear.
How does that sound?
Yeah, that sounds good, I guess. Okay,
I'll find you. All right. Thank you so much to the both of you. Appreciate it.
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