New Delhi, April 10 -- After successfully rounding the Moon, NASA's Artemis II crew - Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen - have begun their return journey to Earth, having traveled farther into space than any astronauts in history.

The finale to NASA's celebrated 10-day mission was expected to begin with separation of Orion's crew capsule from its service module, followed by a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere and a six-minute radio blackout before the capsule parachutes into the sea.

Artemis 2's Orion will enter Earth's atmosphere at a steeper angle than originally planned, in order to reduce the time spent moving through the atmosphere at high velocity and temperature, and hopefully reducing the cha...