Artemis Two Crew's Moon Flyby: Untold Tales Await

0:00It's April 9th. You're listening to Global News Today, AI-powered coverage from around the world. I'm Cory with the story. The Artemis II crew just wrapped their historic trip around the moon, and they're hyped to drop more pictures and stories once they're back on solid. Ground. These four astronauts flew the Orion spacecraft on a flyby of the moon's far side. The part we never see from Earth, and now they're cruising home for A. Splashed down off San Diego around 8 p.m. Eastern this Friday. Earlier this week, Pilot Victor Glover chatted with reporters from space, saying they've got tons more to share after going farther from Earth than any humans before. This was their first update since that epic flyby, with voice delays making it feel even more out of this world. The team opened up about emotional highs, like naming a crater after Commander Reed Weisman's late wife, which hit him hard and brought tears to the crew. Glover called watching a lunar eclipse from the far side, his biggest gift, and they stressed

1:01key science observations for the geology squad. Meanwhile, their wrapping experiments in checks, getting Earth news straight from family, who Weisman joked, are biased fans, astronaut Christina Koch said, she won't miss a thing. The risks and sacrifices are all worth pushing deeper into space. As they gear up for the final test, a screaming re-entry at nearly 25,000 miles per hour through the atmosphere parachutes to Boeing 4. Pacific Splashed down. The world's waiting to hear those untold tales from the moon's hidden side.