US Edition‘Welcome Home’: New Video Shows Recovery Team Reaching Artemis II Crew After Splashdown
The four astronauts became the first humans to fly to the moon since Apollo 17, reaching 252,756 miles from Earth on the record-breaking mission.
- The Navy recovery team retrieved the four-member Artemis II crew from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, April 10.
- During their nearly 10-day mission, the astronauts voyaged a maximum 252,756 miles from Earth, marking the first human flight to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
- Inside the tiny 330 cubic-foot Orion capsule, trained Navy divers and medical officers greeted the crew, announcing 'four green' to confirm all four astronauts were in good health.
- Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen plan a news conference on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. to detail their mission.
- NASA aims to land humans on the moon again before China, using Artemis flight data to prepare for a planned 2028 moonwalk and extended human presence on another world.
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The Orion capsule descended safely in the Pacific, near the coast of California, after overcoming atmospheric re-entry. Artemis II astronauts successfully completed their mission on April 10, 2026, after amerging in the Pacific Ocean and leaving the Orion capsule. Images show the crew being extracted after a 10-day trip, marking a successful final milestone before their medical assessment.
The Navy dive team that recovered Artemis II crew as Orion on display in San Diego
A special ops Navy dive medical team from San Diego were the first to greet the Artemis II crew after they returned to Earth, providing medical care and assisting them out of the Orion space capsule. After the historic moon mission, a piece of that history is still right here in San Diego... for a little bit longer.
A little more than a century later, man again reached the Moon, with the Artemis II mission making history. The post The shocking video a few minutes after the Artemis II mission landed appeared first on in.gr.
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