Artemis II crew emotional as mission prepares for reentry
Key takeaways
- In less than 48 hours, the Orion spacecraft is due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
- https://p.dw.com/p/5Btm NThe 10-day Artemis II mission is almost complete Image: NASA/Handout/REUTERSAdvertisement.
- "Human minds should not go through what these just went through," said NASA's Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman.
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In less than 48 hours, the Orion spacecraft is due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Crew members have said what they saw in space will forever change how they see the world.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Btm NThe 10-day Artemis II mission is almost complete Image: NASA/Handout/REUTERSAdvertisement. The four astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission's Orion spacecraft spoke to the press from space for the first time since completing a lunar flyby that took them a record distance from earth.
After becoming the first humans to directly observe the far-side of the moon, emotions are running high as the crew prepares to reenter the earth's atmosphere and splash down on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.