HOUSTON—Humanity’s first adventure to the moon in more than 50 years is complete.
Artemis II, NASA’s 10-day test flight around the moon, concluded just after 8 p.m. ET on April 10 when the Orion spacecraft gently parachuted into the Pacific Ocean off San Diego.
Inside that spacecraft, named Integrity, were NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. In the course of 13 minutes, they discovered, as Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan described it, “what it’s like to be that comet.”
Floating in the calm seas, they were once again embraced by Earth’s gravity after pushing farther from her surface than any other astronauts, and seeing things no human eye had seen….