Artemis II crew splashes down near San Diego after historic moon mission

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth from their moon mission on Friday with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, after making a high-speed reentry through the atmosphere.
The Orion capsule carried a crew of four — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — back to Earth after a nine-day mission that set a record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our planet.
Navy recovery crews brought the astronauts to the USS John P. Murtha for medical checks before they were slated to helicopter back to land.

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