As millions of people held their breath, the four Artemis II astronauts flawlessly splashed down back to Earth in the Orion capsule, ending their history-making 10-day mission to the moon and back.
“What a journey,” Commander Reid Wiseman said as he bobbed in the Pacific Ocean inside the Orion capsule just minutes after the safe return. He added that he and his crewmates were safe and doing well.
The splashdown, which happened in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT / 5:07 p.m. PT, followed a harrowing and dangerous reentry, where NASA astronauts Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, traveled at speeds up to 25,000 mph ‒ possibly faster than humans have ever traveled.
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I’m wchting from maningrida community NT and thanks to God for saving them 🙏🏾
If u believe this bullshit u believe in Bigfoot aswell oh maybe a orange unicorn will also be real America will lie in ur face an turn around an lie again
I work at Milliken. We provided the material and fireproofed the space suites. That’s awesome. $250,000,000 per suite. That’s insane
When will the on board video of re entry be shown??
It’s hard to believe NASA with the amount of green screen, wires and hairspray but hay if you can find a vacuum chamber test for a space suit that would shut up a lot of people
cool
wtf recorded them from that high in the air? not a plane, thats for sure