Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human

The four Artemis II astronauts, returning from ⁠the ⁠world's first crewed moon voyage in over half a ⁠century, hurtled back toward Earth on Friday aboard their gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft, headed for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off ​Southern California.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts return after a historic lunar flyby, setting a distance record and sharing life aboard the Orion spacecraft.

The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission are about to plunge through the atmosphere toward Earth, after a successful visit to the moon.

After swinging around the moon on a journey through space, a NASA crew of four astronauts is slated to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening, capping the historic lunar return by the US.

The Artemis II mission is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Friday night around 8:00 p.m., after successfully orbiting the Moon and breaking the record for the furthest from Earth humans have ever gone (their orbit was higher up than past moon missions,

Their dramatic grand finale fast approaching, Artemis II’s astronauts aimed for a splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first voyage to the moon in more than half a century.

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