From Global News.

NASA held a press conference on the conclusion of the historic Artemis II lunar mission Friday evening, hours after the four astronauts involved splashed down back onto Earth.

Officials delivered brief statements on the success of their mission and confirmed astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch were "happy and healthy" before heading home to Houston on Saturday.

Travelling at a whopping 38,000 km/h, the crew landed off the coast of San Diego, Calif., at 8:07 p.m. ET.

The astronauts’ Orion spacecraft left Earth and headed for the moon — nearly 250,000 miles away — on April 1, 2026. The mission saw humans examine the moon up close for the first time since the Apollo flights of the 1960s and ’70s.

Space officials say Artemis is ushering in a new era of space exploration, with hopes of planting boots on the moon by 2028.

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