The capsule perfectly plunked down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego precisely at 8:07 p.m. ET, with the dangerous reentry going off without a hitch as giant orange and white parachutes slowed the zooming capsule for a gentle splashdown at 19 mph.
The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch — are all in “excellent shape,” NASA said, calling their landing a “perfect bullseye” that was less than a mile from their target.
“Yesterday, flight director Jeff Radigan said we had less than a degree of an angle to hit after a quarter of a million miles to the moon. And their team hit it,” said NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. “That is not luck — that is 1,000 people doing their job.”
Artemis II’s peak velocity hit a staggering 24,664 mph — not quite enough to break Apollo 10’s record for fastest reentry in 1967 at 24,791 mph — but impressive in and of itself.Read more, see photos, and video here.

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