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The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.
Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth, sharing unique videos and adapting to gravity, while NASA plans for Artemis III.
Records were set. History was made. All that was left was to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe. That happened with a safe splashdown Friday night.
Almost as soon as they arrived at the Moon, gravity started pulling the astronauts back home. The four-day homebound cruise ended with an on-target reentry, with the Orion capsule reaching a top speed of some 24,661 mph, just shy of the all-time human speed record set on the Apollo 10 mission returning from the Moon in 1969.
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts came home today (April 10), wrapping up an epic mission that broke spaceflight records and set the stage for even more ambitious moonshots to come.
In their first press conference since returning from space, the four-person crew described feeling small but united with people on Earth and said the mission was an achievement by all of humanity
After making history on their journey around the moon, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have come home.
President Donald Trump will meet April 29 with the four Artemis II astronauts at the White House after their historic mission around the moon.