NASA Completes Historic Moon Voyage With Vow of ‘More to Come’

NASA’s Artemis crew of four astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, capping humanity’s first return to the moon in more than 50 years.

The Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion crew capsule carrying the Artemis II crew completed a fiery plunge through the planet’s atmosphere, before touching down under parachutes off the coast of California just after 5 p.m. local time. NASA said the crew was in good health.