💬 Quoted…​​ “Callisto, take me to the moon.”

• Callisto is an AI voice assistant for astronauts jointly developed by Amazon, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin. It’ll be tested for the first time on NASA’s upcoming Artemis test flight around the moon and back, which is set to launch next week.

+For those with an Alexa-enabled device: You can follow the mission’s progress by saying, “Alexa, take me to the moon.”

💰 Stat of the Day: A conservative nonprofit called the Marble Freedom Trust received a $1.6 billion donation last year from Barre Seid, former CEO of electrical-device manufacturer Tripp Lite.

• It stands “among the largest – if not the largest – single contributions ever made to a politically focused nonprofit,” per the NY Times.

🌎 Around the World: Today is Ukraine's Independence Day, and marks six months exactly since the war started.

🤯 Did You Know?... Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day relived the same day for "30 or 40 years," according to the film's director Harold Ramis.

📖 Worth a Read: Vince Gilligan Wants to Write a Good Guy → (The New Yorker)