HOME: The Artemis II crew has arrived back on Earth, ending a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon, and farther into space than humans have ever gone before
HOME: The Artemis II crew has arrived back on Earth, ending a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon, and farther into space than humans have ever gone before
I’m so glad I’m alive for this. I wasn’t even dreamed up the first time we went.
Jutemp24 on
The whole splashdown was magical to watch. What an incredible view when the crew module seperated. Then the first visuals of a tiny dot going a gazillion miles an hour. Parachutes deploying. And then extraction. Everything was beautiful.
Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.
Mia_Wallace666 on
What an incredible time to be alive, thank you to these four brave people for the joy and hope they’ve brought so many of us with their journey.
Peauu on
For any one in to this mission i highly suggest this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXRREHVkHo. A fantastic rundown of some of the best photos to come back from the mission.
AvalancheMaster on
It’s 9:30 am for me and I’ve just woken up with blood-shot eyes, feeling extremely hungover. I lived with this mission these past 10 days, had the livestream constantly in the background, stayed late to see the launch, stayed late to watch the fly by, and now stayed late to see them come back home safely.
Of course, I knew nothing of commander Reid Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, and it would be improper to say that I now know much more. I’ve heard of them mostly as names — ones that I did memorize, but names nonetheless — before the launch, yet these past 10 days they were constantly in the background for my family, not in the perverse reality show way, but as humans whose important mission we were enthralled by. Not only did they successfully conduct one of the most important missions of humanity in the last 50 years, but they did it with million of people like me observing them and every message they exchanged back with Earth, from the relative mundanities of a broken toilet (that far too many people were obsessed with) to their profound words during the flyby of the Moon or the eclipse.
I am so proud of them, and so proud of everyone involved in this mission, I am so, so proud!
I don’t want to “get to know them better” or continue following their lives; I am under no delusion that I now know them personally, us gaining such a perspective on their personal lives was a side effect, not the goal. Yet they couldn’t have picked a better team of four humans to send, I am so grateful their humour and camaraderie were such an integral part of my life, of our lives these past 10 days, and I am just overwhelmed with emotions after such an eventful night (but luckily uneventful, too!) and the short sleep I had.
Totally worth it!
Saar007808 on
just the best – we all needed this! we watched the take off, updates and splashdown as a family
next there’ll be a woman on the moon at last!
ReMoGged on
Why Elon (scammer) Musk is so utterly quiet?
Berlchicken on
What a relief. This is such a beautiful launchpad (forgive the pun) for the rest of the Artemis program. Can’t wait!
thatmanwithwhat on
It’s these types of success that inspire the next generation and hopefully bring us into the future of space travel.
Stanimator on
Congrats to everyone! Thanks for lighting the path to further space exploration!
Got_yayo on
That’s awesome! Go humanity!
StaticSystemShock on
Cool 🙂 I’m glad they came back safely and that mission was a success. At least something good happened in 2026 if everything else is total shitshow.
I wonder, is same crew planned for Artemis III or are there other astronauts already planned for it? I hear it’s planned for April 2027 already which is exactly 1 year after this mission.
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*clapping*
I’m so glad I’m alive for this. I wasn’t even dreamed up the first time we went.
The whole splashdown was magical to watch. What an incredible view when the crew module seperated. Then the first visuals of a tiny dot going a gazillion miles an hour. Parachutes deploying. And then extraction. Everything was beautiful.
Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.
What an incredible time to be alive, thank you to these four brave people for the joy and hope they’ve brought so many of us with their journey.
For any one in to this mission i highly suggest this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXRREHVkHo. A fantastic rundown of some of the best photos to come back from the mission.
It’s 9:30 am for me and I’ve just woken up with blood-shot eyes, feeling extremely hungover. I lived with this mission these past 10 days, had the livestream constantly in the background, stayed late to see the launch, stayed late to watch the fly by, and now stayed late to see them come back home safely.
Of course, I knew nothing of commander Reid Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, and it would be improper to say that I now know much more. I’ve heard of them mostly as names — ones that I did memorize, but names nonetheless — before the launch, yet these past 10 days they were constantly in the background for my family, not in the perverse reality show way, but as humans whose important mission we were enthralled by. Not only did they successfully conduct one of the most important missions of humanity in the last 50 years, but they did it with million of people like me observing them and every message they exchanged back with Earth, from the relative mundanities of a broken toilet (that far too many people were obsessed with) to their profound words during the flyby of the Moon or the eclipse.
I am so proud of them, and so proud of everyone involved in this mission, I am so, so proud!
I don’t want to “get to know them better” or continue following their lives; I am under no delusion that I now know them personally, us gaining such a perspective on their personal lives was a side effect, not the goal. Yet they couldn’t have picked a better team of four humans to send, I am so grateful their humour and camaraderie were such an integral part of my life, of our lives these past 10 days, and I am just overwhelmed with emotions after such an eventful night (but luckily uneventful, too!) and the short sleep I had.
Totally worth it!
just the best – we all needed this! we watched the take off, updates and splashdown as a family
next there’ll be a woman on the moon at last!
Why Elon (scammer) Musk is so utterly quiet?
What a relief. This is such a beautiful launchpad (forgive the pun) for the rest of the Artemis program. Can’t wait!
It’s these types of success that inspire the next generation and hopefully bring us into the future of space travel.
Congrats to everyone! Thanks for lighting the path to further space exploration!
That’s awesome! Go humanity!
Cool 🙂 I’m glad they came back safely and that mission was a success. At least something good happened in 2026 if everything else is total shitshow.
I wonder, is same crew planned for Artemis III or are there other astronauts already planned for it? I hear it’s planned for April 2027 already which is exactly 1 year after this mission.
I love that we’re doing this all over again!