FULL NASA Artemis II Splashdown: See the moment astronauts returned to Earth
After its historic 10-day flight to the moon, Artemis II astronauts splashed down off the coast of California on Friday night.The crew—NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen—splashed down in the Pacific Ocean around 8:07 p.m. EDT on Friday. Approximately two hours after splashdown, the crew was one-by-one extracted from Orion and then flown to the USS John P. Murtha by U.S. Navy helicopters. Once aboard, the astronauts were expected to undergo post-mission medical evaluations before returning to shore to board an aircraft bound for NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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