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The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT Friday off the coast of San Diego, completing a nearly 10-day journey that took them 252,756 miles from home at their farthest distance from Earth.

[b]“Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, welcome home, and congratulations on a truly historic achievement. NASA is grateful to President Donald Trump and partners in Congress for providing the mandate and resources that made this mission and the future of Artemis possible,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Artemis II demonstrated extraordinary skill, courage, and dedication as the crew pushed Orion, SLS (Space Launch System), and human exploration farther than ever before. As the first astronauts to fly this rocket and spacecraft, the crew accepted significant risk in service of the knowledge gained and the future we are determined to build. NASA also acknowledges the contributions of the entire NASA workforce, along with our international partners, whose expertise and commitment were essential to this mission’s success. With Artemis II complete, focus now turns confidently toward assembling Artemis III and preparing to return to the lunar surface, build the base, and never give up the Moon again.”[/b]

After splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the astronauts were met by a combined NASA and U.S. military team that assisted them out of the spacecraft in open water and transported them via helicopter to the USS John P. Murtha for initial medical checkouts. The crew members are expected to return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11.

During their mission, Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen flew 694,481 miles in total. Their lunar flyby took them farther than any humans have ever traveled before, surpassing the previous distance record set by Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.

The first Artemis crew launched on NASA’s SLS rocket at 6:35 p.m. April 1, from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the American-built rocket propelled the crew inside the Orion spacecraft to space, delivering it to orbit with pinpoint accuracy after a smooth countdown conducted by the agency’s Artemis launch control team.

During the first day in space, the astronauts and teams on the ground checked out the spacecraft — named Integrity by the crew — to confirm all systems were healthy ahead of the transit to the Moon. NASA also deployed four CubeSats from international partners to Earth orbit.

On the second day of the test flight, with all systems Go, Orion’s service module fired its main engine, placing the astronauts on a trajectory that brought them 4,067 miles above the lunar surface at their closest approach.

“The Artemis II crew is home. The entry, descent, and landing systems performed as designed and the final test was completed as intended. This moment belongs to the thousands of people across fourteen countries who built, tested, and trusted this vehicle. Their work protected four human lives traveling at 25,000 miles per hour and brought them safely back to Earth,” said NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. “Artemis II proved the vehicle, the teams, the architecture, and the international partnership that will return humanity to the lunar surface. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy carried the hopes of this world farther than humans have traveled in more than half a century. Fifty‑three years ago, humanity left the Moon. This time, we returned to stay. The future is ours to win.”

With astronauts aboard for the first time, engineers put Orion through a full in‑flight evaluation. The crew tested the spacecraft’s life support systems, confirming Orion can sustain humans in deep space. During several piloting demonstrations, crew members took manual control of the spacecraft, flying Orion to validate its handling and collect data that will guide future rendezvous and docking operations with human-rated landers during Artemis III and beyond.

The crew completed a series of tests to inform how NASA will fly future missions to the Moon, including evaluations of how the spacecraft operates during crew exercise, emergency equipment and procedures, the Orion crew survival system spacesuits, and other critical spacecraft systems.

Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen also supported scientific investigations to help NASA prepare astronauts to live and work on the Moon as the agency builds a Moon Base and looks toward Mars. These experiments — including the AVATAR investigation, which studies how human tissue responds to microgravity and the deep space radiation environment, and other human research performance studies — are gathering essential health data for long-duration missions.

During their April 6 lunar flyby, the astronauts captured more than 7,000 images of the lunar surface and a solar eclipse, during which the Moon blocked the Sun from Orion’s vantage point. The imagery includes striking views of earthset and earthrise, impact craters, ancient lava flows, our Milky Way galaxy, and surface fractures and color variations across the lunar terrain.

They documented the topography along the terminator — the boundary between lunar day and night — where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface, creating illumination conditions similar to those in the South Pole region where astronauts are scheduled to land in 2028. The crew also proposed potential names for two lunar craters and reported meteoroid impact flashes on the night side of the Moon.

Artemis II science will pave the way for future missions to the Moon’s surface by helping advance mission operations and training astronauts to use well-informed judgment to identify areas of high interest for science and exploration.

With the crew safely on Earth, NASA and its partners now will turn attention to preparing for next year’s Artemis III mission, when a new Orion crew will test integrated operations with commercially built Moon landers in low Earth orbit.

As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly challenging missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and lay the groundwork for sending the first astronauts – American astronauts – to Mars.

@just2wise
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-record-setting-artemis-ii-moonfarers-back-to-earth/

Nigeria to send their "Condem" Rocket to Moon to share Rice for Tinubu Re election

Yes yes yes yes yes.
Conspiracy theorists where are u

Kudos to them.
I'm happy this visit was well documented. Eagerly waiting for the flat earthers and other conspiracy theory dimw1ts to attempt to explain it away again

Welcome from the space, and what new thing did you guys discover or everything is still as old as the world

Oh my, we are here deregistering ADC and shouting Tinubu expect more

People still believe all this fake so called moon travel launched on April 1st fools day, they are laughing at you thinking you are a fool. Go and look at all the so called pictures and videos of the moon and earth from the so called moon travel, it's all animations, CGI, AI generated bull crap, no live videos, nothing real about the whole thing just Hollywood stunts made in a studio, just like the so called Apollo moon landing all deceptions and trickery from NASA (Never A Straight Answer)

The moon just like the Sun is a plasma disk set in the firmament and no human made of flesh and blood can land on it or walk on it, Satan is a liar and the father of lies and the whole fake space travel lies is from Satan, you can't even get through the firmament and the Van Allen radiation belt, so how did they supposedly got to the moon, this is all a joke and a distraction. They are in space and there are no stars in all their fake pictures and videos, but I can see stars from earth, but you can believe whatever you want that they went to the moon.

You follow them go there?...it can still be a conspiracy theory

Zee454:
Kudos to them.
I'm happy this visit was well documented. Eagerly waiting for the flat earthers and other conspiracy theory dimw1ts to attempt to explain it away again

You follow them go there?...what make you think it cant still be seen as a conspiracy theory?

blowjohn:
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Conspiracy theorists where are u

Dem try. Welcome back.

Na people wey chop belleful dey fly go moon.

Y didn't dey land my state, I was expecting to hear news that the landed in lokoja at the point river Niger and River Benue met.. I'm not happy oooo

Imagine , astronauts Went to the moon and back
And Man-U still never play any match.

You came late to the party.

AS A NIGERIAN PERSON, PLS SHOW ME YOUR PART IN THIS DEVELOPMENT?

Must you fight over their matter,, american don't know if you exist😀

Ever8090:
You follow them go there?...it can still be a conspiracy theory

when china will go him own

Just like the movie " Life ".... I hope they did not come back with Calvin.

Zee454:
Kudos to them.
I'm happy this visit was well documented. Eagerly waiting for the flat earthers and other conspiracy theory dimw1ts to attempt to explain it away again

even the flat earthers have not been able to explain why some countries experience daytime and why some experience night time at the same time.
They just like to confuse themselves

No just mind them

Their heads are probably flat

The failure people that continues to be underachievers will still not believe what's going on like this successful event

They will tell u, it was all done in the studio

I just smile whenever conspiracist confuse themselves

RaptorX:
People still believe all this fake so called moon travel launched on April 1st fools day, they are laughing at you thinking you are a fool. Go and look at all the so called pictures and videos of the moon and earth from the so called moon travel, it's all animations, CGI, AI generated bull crap, no live videos, nothing real about the whole thing just Hollywood stunts made in a studio, just like the so called Apollo moon landing all deceptions and trickery from NASA (Never A Straight Answer)

The moon just like the Sun is a plasma disk set in the firmament and no human made of flesh and blood can land on it or walk on it, Satan is a liar and the father of lies and the whole fake space travel lies is from Satan, you can't even get through the firmament and the Van Allen radiation belt, so how did they supposedly got to the moon, this is all a joke and a distraction. They are in space and there are no stars in all their fake pictures and videos, but I can see stars from earth, but you can believe whatever you want that they went to the moon.

No use this sense raise your kid!!!

SadiqBabaSani:
Oh my, we are here deregistering ADC and shouting Tinubu expect more

How can you say a thing like this?
APC has launched CBM♾️ (City Boys Movement Infinity). They will make 20 days trip to space, around the sun and back.
Then by 2031, they will launch the World's first Sun landing.

Haaaaa navwa ooo..... See person wey family train for school

RaptorX:
People still believe all this fake so called moon travel launched on April 1st fools day, they are laughing at you thinking you are a fool. Go and look at all the so called pictures and videos of the moon and earth from the so called moon travel, it's all animations, CGI, AI generated bull crap, no live videos, nothing real about the whole thing just Hollywood stunts made in a studio, just like the so called Apollo moon landing all deceptions and trickery from NASA (Never A Straight Answer)

The moon just like the Sun is a plasma disk set in the firmament and no human made of flesh and blood can land on it or walk on it, Satan is a liar and the father of lies and the whole fake space travel lies is from Satan, you can't even get through the firmament and the Van Allen radiation belt, so how did they supposedly got to the moon, this is all a joke and a distraction. They are in space and there are no stars in all their fake pictures and videos, but I can see stars from earth, but you can believe whatever you want that they went to the moon.

ChizzyBuna:
Nigeria to send their "Condem" Rocket to Moon to share Rice for Tinubu Re election

Even NASA started with rockets like that.

RaptorX:
People still believe all this fake so called moon travel launched on April 1st fools day, they are laughing at you thinking you are a fool. Go and look at all the so called pictures and videos of the moon and earth from the so called moon travel, it's all animations, CGI, AI generated bull crap, no live videos, nothing real about the whole thing just Hollywood stunts made in a studio, just like the so called Apollo moon landing all deceptions and trickery from NASA (Never A Straight Answer)

The moon just like the Sun is a plasma disk set in the firmament and no human made of flesh and blood can land on it or walk on it, Satan is a liar and the father of lies and the whole fake space travel lies is from Satan, you can't even get through the firmament and the Van Allen radiation belt, so how did they supposedly got to the moon, this is all a joke and a distraction. They are in space and there are no stars in all their fake pictures and videos, but I can see stars from earth, but you can believe whatever you want that they went to the moon.

But you can believe Jesus is coming back soon and the trumpet will sound in the sky right?

Historic moment, Now we are one step from having man on the moon. Again.

People don't realize how... I don't know the word to use. They don't realize how extraordinary this is, and I'm truly happy that president Trump is supporting NASA on this space exploration. And I do hope the future administration continue with this.

NASA is undoubtedly one of the greatest and coolest departments ever created. The math and physics involved in space exploration gives me orgasm, imagine calculating everything including where and the time they'd hit the Pacific ocean. Damn! God!

I just wish Nigeria will do better , America is already talking about putting a permanent base on the moon and relocating some industries there. China is also on this moon mission which is probably why Americans became more interested in space exploration.

Hopefully, we encounter aliens soon , that would be scary but it will change everything.

SuperOnyi:




People don't realize how... I don't know the word to use. They don't realize how extraordinary this is, and I'm truly happy that president Trump is supporting NASA on this space exploration. And I do hope the future administration continue with this.

NASA is undoubtedly one of the greatest and coolest departments ever created. The math and physics involved in space exploration gives me orgasm, imagine calculating everything including where and the time they'd hit the Pacific ocean. Damn! God!

I just wish Nigeria will do better , America is already talking about putting a permanent base on the moon and relocating some industries there. China is also on this moon mission which is probably why Americans became more interested in space exploration.

Hopefully, we encounter aliens soon , that would be scary but it will change everything.

So a spacecraft that reentered Earth's atmosphere travelling at 30 times the speed of sound with temperature of 5,000F splashed down in the ocean with not a single steam coming from a craft that just encountered such tremendous heat and suddenly in contact with cold water, not a single steam from the body of the craft. No wonder they launched it on April fools day because they know 80 to 90% of humanity lack critical thinking skills.

When are we going to stop
fooling ourselves?....

Taking pictures while circling.... Why not videos all through in this modern age? Why CGIs with all our advancements in science and technology?

Why can't we see live video of earth all through? Weather patterns, planes flying in different directions AROUND THE GLOBE? 🌎

WHY CAN'T THEY SHOW US PLANES THAT WILL APPEAR LIKE IT'S FLYING UPSIDE DOWN, SIDEWAYS AND BELOW?...

jeff1993:
Haaaaa navwa ooo..... See person wey family train for school

Why don't you refute his claim then you that went to school.

RaptorX:
People still believe all this fake so called moon travel launched on April 1st fools day, they are laughing at you thinking you are a fool. Go and look at all the so called pictures and videos of the moon and earth from the so called moon travel, it's all animations, CGI, AI generated bull crap, no live videos, nothing real about the whole thing just Hollywood stunts made in a studio, just like the so called Apollo moon landing all deceptions and trickery from NASA (Never A Straight Answer)

The moon just like the Sun is a plasma disk set in the firmament and no human made of flesh and blood can land on it or walk on it, Satan is a liar and the father of lies and the whole fake space travel lies is from Satan, you can't even get through the firmament and the Van Allen radiation belt, so how did they supposedly got to the moon, this is all a joke and a distraction. They are in space and there are no stars in all their fake pictures and videos, but I can see stars from earth, but you can believe whatever you want that they went to the moon.

see this one you don't believe they got to the moon but you believe that AI exists, you believe that Satan exists and you believe that AI pictures, you believe that kidney transplant, heart trasnplant, brain surgery, C section operation can be done, when you are sick you go to the hospital, take medicine manufactured by white people, you can make calls from your phone, make videos, send videos, watch videos, record, videos, fly in an airplane, oh! Did you know that you could move a car with your phone? did you also know that there are driverless trains, driverless cars, autopilot airplanes, grenades, guns, nuclear weapon, electricity, gas, petrol, light bulbs and ETC. but you don't believe that Americans landed on the moon. Tell me, what have you and your familiy generations ever invented on this earth to help mankind? You are not clever at all. You need to come out of that small minded room you have been living in. . Why would they be distracting you? From what? They can do anything they like to you if they want, when they want, how they want and there is nothing you can do. They know where you are, how to find you, they are monitoring you 247. So why would they be distracting you?

And oh! Did you also believe that covid 19 happened or not?