'This is a moment I never thought would be my real life,' Alba says in the video shared on Tuesday, April 7
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- Jessica Alba shared an Instagram Reel reacting to Astronaut Christina Koch’s request for hand lotion from The Honest Company while aboard the Artemis II mission
- Alba founded The Honest Company in 2012
- The Artemis II mission launched its historic 10-day journey to the far side of the moon on April 1
Jessica Alba is reacting to Artemis II Astronaut Christina Koch's special request from space: hand lotion from Alba's The Honest Company.
The actress, 44, shared an Instagram Reel on Tuesday, April 7, reacting to a clip capturing the astronaut's care package request.
“Yes, this one might take some digging," Koch, 47, is heard saying in the clip. "I’m looking for a specific community hygiene item that is Honest lotion."
As the clip plays, Alba is smiling in surprise and excitement.
“What? That is wild," Alba begins her response to Koch's request for The Honest Company's hand lotion as she tears up at the gravity of the moment.
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Alba went on to recount her inspiration for creating the company to ensure "safer products," noting that the company takes its name in homage to her teen daughter, Honor.
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"And then…now it’s in space! What?" Alba continued. "That is wild. This is a trip. This is a moment I never thought would be my real life. And so anyone out there who has any dreams of anything, just go after it, because you never know. I mean, your products can be in space."
Alba founded the company in 2012, and served as Chief Creative Officer until 2024.
Koch is one of the four astronauts who launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 1 aboard Artemis II on a historic journey. The astronauts plan to venture around the far side of the moon and back in 10 days—marking the first mission of this nature since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
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Artemis is the first crewed flight test of both the Space Launch System, a deep-space rocket, and the Orion around the moon.
The goal is to “confirm all the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space,” according to NASA, ahead of what are future planned expeditions back to the moon.
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