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Artemis II Astronauts Return to Earth, Inspiring San Diego Families
The four astronauts are returning after a lunar flyby that tested Orion’s life-support and manual controls ahead of future moon missions.
- The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., tonight.
- Having traveled farther from Earth than any humans previously, the crew tested life support systems and manual controls during their lunar flyby, marking a return to the moon for the first time in 50 years.
- Plunging through the atmosphere at nearly 40,000 kilometres an hour, the capsule will endure temperatures of 3,000 C, with a 13-minute re-entry sequence deploying parachutes to slow the craft to 32 km/h.
- Once the Orion capsule splashes down, the USS John P. Murtha will recover the crew, with landing and recovery director Liliana Villarreal stating teams will assist the astronauts to a large inflatable raft.
- After medical evaluations in Houston, NASA engineers will examine the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using data from this flight to inform adjustments for the Artemis III mission, set to launch next year.
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Artemis astronauts return to earth
NASA celebrated a triumphant return from the Moon late Friday as four astronauts splashed down safely off the California coast, completing the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years and marking a major milestone for the US space agency’s ambitions to return humans to deep space. Caitlin Brown reports.
·France
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The four American and Canadian astronauts of the Artemis II mission landed in the night of Friday to Saturday as planned off California, running a test mission around the Moon
All four astronauts are fine.
·Bratislava, Slovakia
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