Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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collectSPACE.com — Ten days and 694,481 miles after leaving Earth for the moon, the Artemis II crew has returned. Slowed by parachutes, the astronaut's Orion spacecraft "Integrity" splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, on Friday evening (April 10, 2026).

NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, together with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, made history as the first people to fly by the moon in 53 years.

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