Artemis II Returns After Record-Setting Lunar Flyby
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NASA's Artemis II crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—completed a nearly 10-day mission that included a record-breaking lunar flyby, reaching a farthest distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before splashing down off the California coast at 5:07 p.m. PDT. The voyage tested Orion’s life-support and control systems, demonstrated manual piloting, and gathered data to inform Artemis III and a sustained lunar presence, while NASA documented thousands of lunar images and conducted scientific investigations.
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