Artemis Two Crew Returns: First Crewed Lunar Trip in 50 Years

0:00It's April 16th. Welcome in. This is Sydney News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. A week after splashing down in the Pacific, the Artemis II crew finally hit their first press conference and they're still wrapping their heads. Around flying around the moon, Commander Reed Weisman, pilots Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Canadian Jeremy Hanson, just wrapped a nearly 10-day trip that took humans farther from Earth than ever before. At a Ryan capsule, dubbed Integrity, nailed reentry last Friday, despite some heat shield charring, they spotted up close on the recovery ship. Weisman said it looked solid to their eyes, but NASA is going to comb through every bit of it before calling it perfect. Unlike the uncrewed Artemis I in 2022, where the shield got beat up bad in delayed things, this time they tweaked the entry path too. Cut the heat. Crew felt that wild freefall for five seconds as parachutes popped, then as smoothed out glorious. Back home they've been slammed with medical checks on balance, strength, and more, even

1:02suiting up for moon gravity sims to test future walkers. Glover's kids and neighbors filled him in on the worldwide buzz he missed hiding from news. This historic run first crewed Lunar Trips since 1972, with a woman, black astronaut, and non-American aboard, sets NASA up strong for a, moon landing in two years and a base beyond. Crews just starting to feel Earth's pull again.