The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth’s atmosphere. They safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in over half a century.
NASA’s gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, parachuted gently into calm seas off the Southern California coast shortly after 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time (0007 GMT on Saturday), concluding a mission that, four days earlier, took the astronauts 252,756 miles away from Earth, deeper into space than anyone had flown before.