The day after splashdown, the Artemis II astronauts (from left) Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman flew to Houston’s Ellington Field, where family, friends and coworkers welcomed them home.
Credit: John Tylko
Even before the Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the successful debut of the first deep space human spaceship in 53 years, NASA ordered the mobile launcher platform, from which their 694,481-mi. journey began, back to the Kennedy Space Center assembly building to begin...
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