WATCH U.S. Navy Making First Contact With Artemis II Crew After 10-Day Moon Mission

Ten days. 200,000 miles. The moon and back. And then — the hatch opens. The U.S. Navy recovery team made first contact with the Artemis II crew following the successful splashdown of the Integrity capsule — opening the hatch and bringing Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen back into the world they left behind 10 days ago. The moment the door opened marked the final act of NASA's most historic human spaceflight mission in over 50 years. Not a countdown. Not a launch. Not a lunar flyby. Just a door. Opening. And four people coming home. Think about what was on the other side of that hatch — 10 days of weightlessness, the silence of deep space, the sight of Earth as a small fragile dot against infinite blackness, reentry at Mach 39, three parachutes, an ocean splashdown. And then the sound of a latch. Turning. And the first breath of real air. The first human faces. The first hands reaching in to say — we've got you. You made it. Welcome home. This is the moment the whole mission was building toward. And it is every bit as powerful as the launch. Stay updated on Artemis II, NASA moon mission, U.S. Navy recovery, astronaut splashdown, and the latest breaking space news. #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #NASA #MoonMission #USNavy #Splashdown #FirstContact #BreakingNews #NASAArtemis #HumanSpaceflight #SpaceNews #ArtemisCrews #NASARecovery #MoonReturn #IntegrityCapsule #ReidWiseman #VictorGlover #ChristinaKoch #JeremyHansen #NASAHistory #USNews2025