NASA celebrates the safe return of the Artemis II crew in Houston, Texas, on April 11, 2026, during a welcoming ceremony a day after splashdown from their moon mission.

Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human eyes — but a total solar eclipse.

The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to splash down off the San Diego coast, concluding a record-breaking lunar mission after a high-heat atmospheric reentry.

Crew members have left their Orion capsule after splashing down into the Pacific, ending Artemis II’s historic 10-day mission to the moon and back.

Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA's lunar comeback that set a record for deep space travel.

A stunning Earthset image from Artemis II recalls Apollo 8's Earthrise, marking humanity's return to deep space and the start of a new era of exploration.

NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, has been a feast for the eyes. See the stunning images from the mission.

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts came home April 10, wrapping up a historic mission that broke records and set the stage for even more ambitious moonshots to come.