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When is the Artemis II splashdown in California? Orion capsule is set to splash down about 8:07 pm ET Friday, April 10, 2026, possibly near San Diego.
At 1:57 p.m. on Monday, April 6, Artemis II's astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft, traveled more than 248,655 miles from Earth, breaking the previous record set by the historic Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
NASA launched the Artemis II mission, which will carry humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, a Central Florida man who helped make the first moon landing possible is reflecting on decades of progress in space exploration.
Microgravity is also an ideal environment for growing the kind of defect-free crystals needed for semiconductors and AI chips. She notes that a single crystal could be produced in space and brought back to Earth to seed more error-free crystals effectively.
NASA races to build a $20 billion lunar base as China and Russia advance moon ambitions, with experts warning China holds the advantage in space.
NASA officials will provide another update on the Artemis II mission, as the four astronauts aboard the test flight prepare to return to Earth at the end of the week. The lunar flyby mission, which
Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 earlier this week, proposing deeply personal names for a pair of lunar craters. Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew asked permission to name one small,