Artemis 2's journey around the Moon ends with splashdown in Pacific Ocean
HOUSTON, April 12 -- Artemis II's astronauts closed out humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy.
It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes, but a total solar eclipse and a parade of planets, most notably our own shimmering Earth against the endless black void of space.
With their flight now complete, the four astronauts have set Nasa up for a moon landing by another crew in just two years and a full-blown moon base within the decade.
The triumphant moon-farers - commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen - ...
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