After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, the crew's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday.

After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, the crew’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday.

The four Artemis II astronauts are back safely on Earth after flying around the moon on NASA’s first lunar mission in more than 50 years.

After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego in their Orion capsule at 8:07 p.m. ET.

It was a picture-perfect splashdown under three huge parachutes, with the capsule landing upright and bobbing in the water as recovery teams raced to the scene.

  • DarthPub@retrofed.comEnglish
    291·
    6 days ago

    This headline is better: Artemis II astronauts return home ALIVE, ending record-breaking NASA mission around the moon

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      11·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, let’s see how the heat shield performed. Are there big chunks missing from this one, too?