Artemis II splashed down safely off the coast of San Diego.
The four-astronaut crew aboard the Integrity spacecraft made what NASA commentator Rob Navias called a “perfect bull’s-eye splashdown” at 8:07pm ET—landing within a mile of their target after following a nearly perfect flight path. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen returned from their record-breaking mission happy and healthy. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said following the return that the US is “back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon” as the space program now continues to work toward establishing a long-term lunar presence using reusable systems.
