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The Artemis II Crew Just Told The World What It Was Really Like To Come Home From The Moon

The four Artemis II astronauts held their first press conference since returning from the Moon this week, and the mood at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was one of genuine pride and relief, with the crew offering glowing reviews of their spacecraft and setting the stage for what comes next. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen told reporters that their nearly 10-day lunar flyby has placed NASA in a significantly stronger position to land a crew on the Moon within the next two years. One of the most closely watched aspects of the mission was the performance of the Orion capsule’s heat shield, a component that had caused serious concern after the first unpiloted Artemis flight in 2022 returned badly pockmarked and gouged, pushing the crewed mission back by months. This time, the crew said it looked wonderful.

Wiseman described the reentry ride as amazing and said NASA will conduct a thorough analysis of the heat shield before the program commits to a lunar landing mission, emphasizing that not a single molecule will go unexamined. The crew also reflected on the extraordinary highlights of their journey: becoming the most distant human travelers in history, watching the Moon block the Sun entirely for nearly 54 minutes during a deep space solar eclipse, and seeing the far side of the Moon in a way no human had for more than 50 years. Pilot Victor Glover said the moment before splashdown, when the parachutes released and the capsule briefly went into freefall, felt like diving backward off a skyscraper, followed by a smoothing out that he described simply as glorious. NASA officials said the mission validated the systems needed for a lunar landing, and that the Moon is now closer than it has been since the last Apollo astronaut left footprints there.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/artemis-astronauts-praise-moonship-performance-heat-shield/106574892

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