India, April 11 -- NASA's Artemis II mission successfully reached its completion as it splashed in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, marking the end of a historic 10-day journey around the Moon. Shortly after 5 pm PT, NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, known as Integrity, gracefully parachuted into calm waters off the coast of Southern California.

The Orion spacecraft carrying four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, returned safely after travelling more than 694,000 miles, per Reuters.

The mission is being hailed as a major step toward humanity's return to the Moon under NASA's Artemis programme.

A NASA webcast featured a live video stream of the splashdown, which occurred approximately two hours ...