Astronaut Sheep Shaun's Triumphant Homecoming

Shaun the Sheep, the popular animated movie character, has returned to Britain after being a passenger in the capsule that was blasted into orbit by NASA's Artemis I rocket. The 16cm-tall stop-motion model earned his astronaut wings as the mascot on the mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA's tie-up with Aardman began with publicity around the studio's release of a Shaun the Sheep sci-fi movie, Farmageddon, in 2019.