Newly released footage showed the moment a recovery crew opened the hatch of the Artemis II’s Orion capsule and welcomed its four-member crew home.
Cheers were heard from both parties as fresh air flooded the capsule, before the recovery crew boarded the spacecraft and welcomed the astronauts home with handshakes and well-wishes.
The Artemis II capsule and its crew streaked through Earth’s atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the Moon in over half a century.
NASA’s gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, parachuted gently into calm seas off the Southern California coast, concluding a mission that four days prior took the astronauts 406,771km away from Earth, deeper into space than anyone had flown before.
Reporting via Reuters.
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