"We can confirm, unambiguously, that the Moon is not cheese," said Dr Patricia Holloway, NASA's deputy director of lunar surface composition, speaking at a press briefing Tuesday. "It has not been cheese at any point during our observation period. We have no reason to believe it will become cheese."
Holloway declined to speculate on what British inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit may have actually consumed during their 1989 lunar visit.
The Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen – completed the flyby this week, travelling further from Earth than any humans since Apollo 13 in 1970.
During their closest approach, at approximately 6,548 kilometres from the lunar surface, crew members reported seeing "rock," "more rock," and "a crater, probably."
A NASA official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wallace and Gromit were "full of shit."
