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"If you dove off a skyscraper backwards, that's what it felt like for five seconds." Artemis pilot Victor Glover spoke about the moment the crew descended back to earth after the moon mission trib.al/oQIzxHH 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Christina Koch signs the Artemis II flag as Jeremy Hansen looks on

Incredible story from Astronaut Reid Wiseman who claimed to not be very “religious person” before going to space. He immediately broke down in tears after seeing the Cross worn by the Navy chaplain.

NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reveals some of the issues the crew had with the spacecraft's toilet during their historic spaceflight: "You know, when you go to the bathroom, at the end of doing that, you flush the toilet? The toilet flushed just fine. But then when the liquid went out the bottom of the toilet, it got clogged up in our vent line." "For those great engineers that made that toilet, I don't want them hanging their head low. They should hang it very high."

it’s a pleasure to hear christina speak. she has such a beautiful way with words. #artemisii

"We don't always do great things ... but our default is to be good and to be good to one another." Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen said that the positive global reaction to the mission has given him "more hope" for the future of humanity. abcnews.com/Technology/nas…

🚨 WOW. Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman just said that despite not being religious, he broke down in TEARS when he saw the CHRISTIAN CROSS after landing on Earth Wiseman says he felt compelled to ask for the chaplain: "I saw the cross on his collar. And I broke down in tears." "I am not a really religious person. But there was no other avenue for me to explain or experience anything. So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship." "When that man walked in — never met him before in my life — I saw the cross on his collar. I broke down in tears." "It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through. And in these short, you just said it's been a week since we've been back, but it's been a week of medical testing, physical testing, doctors, science objectives. I would like, we have not had that decompression." "We have not had that reflection time. So I'm basing this on what we saw." "And when the when the sun eclipsed behind the moon, I think all four of us, I turned to Victor and I said, I don't think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we're looking at right now."

LIVE: Back at home in Houston, our Artemis II astronauts are talking about their mission around the Moon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman: "We launched as friends and we came back as best friends."

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A virgin won't find it disrespectful.

In the past few days, my Artemis II crewmates and I have been running simulations to figure out how to make the most of every step on the lunar surface during future missions. We suit up and push through demanding test runs while our bodies are still adjusting after our trip around the Moon.

Watch the Artemis II crew announcement by NASA, 3 years before their journey to the Moon

"You have to go do really hard, really challenging things." "Be a lifelong learner." "Support those around you." "Don't do it alone." Each of the Artemis II astronauts shared advice for younger people who may someday want to go to space. abcnews.link/gpyD1Vp

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who says he is not religious, says he broke down in tears when he saw the Cross after getting back to Earth. Wiseman: "I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything..." Victor Glover: "The only thing I would add is I am a religious person, but everything else is the same."

NASA landed an 8.5-ton capsule in the Pacific at 17 mph on Friday and four astronauts walked out of it. If they had aimed for a field, those astronauts would be dead. Water doesn't cushion the capsule. It displaces. When Orion hit the ocean, it punched a hole in the surface and transferred its kinetic energy into shoving tens of thousands of pounds of water sideways. The deceleration happened over several feet of penetration, not a single crushing instant. Metal hitting concrete absorbs impact by crushing itself. Water absorbs impact by flowing aside. That's the entire physics of splashdown. Every American crewed capsule since 1961 has landed in water. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Dragon, Orion. The Russians chose differently, and the reason comes down to geography. Soviet launch sites sit in Kazakhstan. Their navy was never set up for open-water recovery during the Cold War. What they had was steppe: millions of square miles of unpopulated grassland. So they built a capsule that lands on dirt. To make dirt landings survivable, Soyuz carries soft-landing retrorockets that fire roughly a meter above the ground. A pair of altimeters triggers them in the final moments. The rockets add weight, add failure points, and still leave the landing feeling like a car crash. Cosmonauts wear custom-molded seat liners to survive the G-loads. Orion skipped every bit of that. The ocean is the retrorocket. It's always there. It requires no precision. The Artemis II recovery zone off San Diego was roughly a thousand square miles of open water. Miss the target by 20 miles and you're still inside it. NASA actually considered switching Orion to a land landing. The original Constellation plan used giant airbags to cushion a ground impact. They ran the numbers against splashdown and switched back. The ocean does for free what three layers of engineered hardware do expensively. Water is enormous and willing to move. That's what brought them home.

Lock in babe. Christina Koch just dropped the secret recipe to her successes. IM SEATED.

NEW: Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch shares the funny moments she's experienced back on Earth having to get used to living with gravity again: "Every time I've been waking up, or in the first few days, I thought I was floating, I truly thought I was floating." "I put a shirt in the air and it went. *THUD* It actually surprised me."

WE MADE THE RIGHT WOMAN FAMOUS 😭

NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition: "When I got back on the on the ship — I'm not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything." "So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears." "It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through."

I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home. Nothing in that system is standing still. The Moon is moving. The Earth is moving. Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here. Adjust here. Come back here. And unlike nepa light, it infact works. There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side. I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything. But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...