Artemis Two Astronauts Splash Down After Moon Mission

0:00Four astronauts from the Artemis-2 mission are heading home after circling the moon. The farthest humans have gone in decades. NASA crew members Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Canada's Jeremy Hanson, flew in the Orion spacecraft called Integrity. Their due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean of San Diego around 8.07 pm, eastern time tonight. Reentry is no joke, hitting speeds near 25,000 miles per hour while the capsule's heat shield faces temperatures up to 3,000 degrees Celsius. The crew will pull almost 4G's, feeling 4 times their weight, like getting pinned down hard. Before that, the European Service Module detaches about 20 minutes out, follow-bots trajectory tweaks and roles. Engineers learn from the uncrewed Artemis-1 test, where heat-shield chunks flaked off due to gas build-up. They adjusted procedures without swapping the shield, and the whole fiery plunge lasts just 14 minutes, including a 6-minute blackout from, plasma blocking signals.

1:01Once they hit the water, the Navy ship USS John P. Murtha swoops in to secure the area, extract the team to an inflatable raft, then helicopter them, a bore for quick medical checks. Christina Koch exits first, then Victor Glover, Jeremy Hanson, and Reed Wiseman last. All that moon data and samples head straight to Houston's Johnson Space Center, wrapping up a milestone flight that sets the stage for future lunar. Landings. Local news, powered by AI. This is Calgary News Today. I'm Corey, with the story.