NASA’s Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT on April 10, completing a 10-day, 700,000-mile mission that sent humans farther from Earth than ever before. Mission Control called it “a perfect bullseye splashdown.”
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1. During the mission, the crew set a record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth—252,756 miles, reached on April 6 during their lunar flyby, humanity’s first trip to the vicinity of the Moon in over 50 years. Entry flight director Rick Henfling reported that the capsule hit its flight path angle target within 0.4% and landed within less than a mile of the target.
