This week on Friday I'm in Bed, we've got two stories that are both, underneath it all, about the same question: who gets celebrated, who gets forgiven, and why does the answer always seem to depend on who you are?

Gem kicks us off with the Artemis II mission, because four astronauts are literally on their way home from flying around the Moon and one of them is 47. Same age as Gem. Born the same year. While Gem has been making a very impressive trifle. We talk about why this feels like such a rare good news story, why Christina Koch being the first woman to journey around the Moon in 2026 is both incredible and a reminder of how overdue it is, and why she still experiences imposter syndrome while being further from Earth than any woman in human history. We also get into Kate's mild ick about the cost of space exploration, Gem's rebuttal involving water ice and Moon-based rocket fuel (she's not a scientist, she just reads things), and the Carroll Crater, which had everyone in tears including the astronauts.

Then Kate takes on Kanye West, the banning, the cancellation, and the question the whole thing really raises. We get into whether bipolar disorder is an explanation or an excuse (and why that framing is too simple) and why wealth and fame can actually remove the safeguards that would catch anyone else, the impossibility of separating art from artist when the artist is still at it, and why Chris Brown is still selling out stadiums while Chappell Roan is still getting grief for a security guard who wasn't even hers.

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In this episode:

• Christina Koch, the first woman to travel around the Moon, on imposter syndrome and stereotype threat at 47
• Why the Artemis II crew - including the first Black astronaut on a lunar mission - is being received as a genuine feel-good story
• The Carroll Crater: Commander Wiseman naming a lunar feature after his late wife during the flyby
• Should space exploration money be spent fixing problems on Earth instead? Gem and Kate disagree (politely)
• Kanye West banned from the UK by the Home Office - and Wireless Festival cancelled entirely as a result
• What bipolar disorder does and doesn't explain about his behaviour, and why "it's not an excuse but it is a reason" is the most useful framing
• Why being surrounded by people whose livelihoods depend on you can make mental illness harder to treat, not easier
• Can you separate the art from the artist? JK Rowling, Joss Whedon, and the question of when the ick finally wins
• The cancel culture double standard: why controversial men tend to bounce back just fine