Artemis II Crew Splashes Down off California Coast

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, together with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on April 10, 2026, completing a nearly ten-day Artemis II mission. NASA stated the crew reached 252,756 miles from Earth during the April 6 lunar flyby, surpassing the previous distance record set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970. The astronauts were recovered by U.S. Navy and NASA teams and transported to Johnson Space Center on April 11.