Artemis Two Crew Returns from Moon Mission

0:00It's April 8th. From your city to your ears, this is Dallas News Today, powered by AI. The Artemis II crew is cruising back home after looping around the moon, wrapping up a chill day in space on Wednesday with final checks before. Reentry and Squashdown. They're set to hit the Pacific off 7 California near San Diego this Sunday at 8.07 pm. Eastern Time, marking NASA's first crewed, Moon Mission since Apollo wrapped in 1972. Here this week, the four astronauts nailed a group photo floating in the Orion capsule, and now they're gearing up for another manual piloting test. To sharpen their skills for future lunar dockings, if auto systems glitch, that hands-on flying prove the spacecraft's precise response, key for linking up with landers in moon orbit down the line. Scientists back at Johnson Space Center are digging through thousands of fresh photos and videos from the crew's flyover of the moon's far side, the first time humans laid eyes on big chunks of it in daylight instead of the shadows Apollo crew saw from 1968 to

1:051972. This lit up view is dropping new clues on the moon's past, while the missions run smooth overall, just the pesky, toilet glitch dumping waste. But nothing derailing their flawless ride back to Earth.