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'Planet Earth, You Are a Crew': Artemis II Astronauts Talk About Moon Mission
The four astronauts reunited with families and NASA colleagues after a 10-day mission that set a record for the farthest any astronaut has flown from Earth.
- On Saturday, April 11, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, returned to Houston after completing their 10-day Artemis 2 mission around the moon.
- During the mission, the crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing the 1970 Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles while executing a dramatic flyby around the moon's far side.
- Commander Reid Wiseman described the crew as 'bonded forever' through their shared experience, saying, 'No one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through.'
- Astronaut Christina Koch reflected on seeing Earth from space, describing it as a 'lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe' and calling all humanity 'a crew' that is 'inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked.'
- Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, stated the astronauts' shoulders 'now seem even broader for the next generation to stand on' following the historic lunar mission.
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'The most special thing that will ever happen in my life': Artemis 2 astronauts describe their epic moon mission
The Artemis 2 astronauts are back on Earth, and they've begun processing their historic moon mission. But it's still tough for them to put the experience into words.
More than 2.3 million kilometers, new records and goose bump moments on the historic moon mission: How does it feel to be so far away from Earth? The crew tells us.
After a nearly ten-day expedition around the Moon, they say it's special to be on planet Earth.
The four astronauts of the Artemis II spacecraft gave a speech at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, after their record-breaking 10-day mission around the moon. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen traveled about 250,000 miles (406,771 km) from Earth - farther than anyone else in the history of space travel. They were greeted with applause and cheers from the crowd. Before them was NASA chief Jared Isaacman, …
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