Artemis Two Crew Returns from Moon Mission

0:00It's April 9th. From your city to your ears, this is Tampa Bay News today, powered by AI. The Artemis II crew is finally heading home after a groundbreaking 10-day loop around the moon. NASA astronauts Reed Weisman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hanson, launched from Kennedy Space Center. On April 1st, aboard the Orion spacecraft. Their set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean of San Diego's coast this Friday, April 10th, at 8.07 pm, Eastern Daylight Time. Earlier this week, they wrapped up the outbound leg, slingshotting past the moon, using gravity assists from both it and Earth. The mission tested Orion's systems in deep space, hitting speeds that pushed the capsule to its limits before the return burn kicked in. Folks are buzzing about this as a big step toward NASA's Artemis program, paving the way from moon landings with diverse crews. It's the first crew to Orion flight since Apollo days, drawing eyes worldwide with real-time

1:00tracking on NASA's Artemis real-time orbit website, and live feeds from space. Right now, the team is buttoning up gear inside Orion, securing everything for reentry where attempts will spike to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. They're also drilling entry procedures to nail the parachute descent, just like those classic Apollo splashes. As Orion splices back through the atmosphere, this mission wraps a new chapter in human spaceflight, proving we can go farther, together. Keep watching those feeds till the end.