00:00Hovering just 40 feet above the front porch, lowering a recovery specialist out of the helicopter.
00:12That person will touch down in the front porch just there.
00:21The crew members already outfitted with a harness that will allow them to quickly attach
00:26to the hoisting device.
00:34Look at the power of those blades throwing water out at the center there, the front porch,
00:44with now three astronauts and the recovery specialists.
00:52Again, crews already outfitted with a harness vest.
01:00And here we go. Second astronaut now off the front porch getting hoisted into the second helicopter.
01:14That helicopter will now hover just a distance away to give room for the first helicopter to come back
01:24and pick up the third astronaut.
01:32As we wait for that helicopter to come back, make its way back around,
01:36just want to mention that the President of the United States called our NASA Administrator today while he was on
01:43the ship,
01:44just minutes after we interviewed him live on our coverage,
01:48and congratulated him and NASA on this history-making moment tonight.
01:59Helicopter one again hovering 40 feet over the front porch.
02:06We will soon see another recovery specialist getting lowered onto the front porch.
02:16Wow. Imagine sitting on that front porch, the wind, the water.
02:21And again, the recovery team determined that a helicopter flight back to the ship here would be safer,
02:30faster, and more comfortable for our crew who just completed a 10-day mission around the moon.
02:38Third astronaut in the air getting hoisted quickly back into the first helicopter now.
02:55That first helicopter now on its way back to the ship here.
02:58We will soon see it land in just a few minutes.
03:01Again, all this action happening just 3,000 yards away from us, so a very quick flight back to the
03:06flight deck.
03:12Now the only person left on the front porch, Commander Reed Wiseman.
03:18That second helicopter now making its way back over to the front porch.
03:27Here it comes.
03:39Making its final approach here.
03:53.
03:53.
03:53.
03:53.
04:14The last astronaut, Commander Reed Weissman, now off the front porch and almost into the
04:23second helicopter.
04:26Both now on their way back to the ship where we are, the USS John P. Murtha, just west
04:33of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean.
04:34The first helicopter coming in.
05:01And wheels down, wheels down of the first helicopter carrying two of our Artemis II crew.
05:10Pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch.
05:17Second helicopter making its approach of the flight deck.
05:30Plenty of people here on the bow with their cell phones out filming this moment.
05:37And there you go.
05:38We now have all four Artemis II crew members on the USS John P. Murtha.
05:52I'm sure they're happy to be out of the water.
05:57And on this recovery ship with, again, 550 people on board, ready to welcome them home.
06:08But first, as we've been saying throughout the broadcast, just making sure the crew feel good.
06:16We reported that they were feeling good when they were in Orion, but those were just initial quick verbal
06:24assessments of how they're feeling.
06:27Hello to you too, Christina.
06:28Yes.
06:30Welcome back.
06:31Welcome, welcome home.
06:36A loudspeaker announcement on the ship saying, welcome home integrity.
06:48Victor in great spirits.
06:50I can't see who he's talking to, but I kind of think that he might be talking to his other
06:53two crew members.
07:11And so now we see some Navy personnel walking up to the helicopter.
07:19This is, again, the first helicopter carrying pilot Victor Glover
07:23and mission specialist Christina Koch.
07:26Both have taken off their helmets now.
07:44Some pictures, video to catalog this historic moment.
07:52A beautiful sunset just behind them here in the Pacific Ocean.
07:56Golden hour.
07:58These pictures will be beautiful.
08:06Now we see NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
08:10He is on the flight deck as well as flight surgeon Rick Schuring walking over to Victor and Christina first.
08:17We saw the Administrator walk over to the other helicopter, which is carrying Commander Reed Weissman
08:23and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen.
08:28We heard from Rick earlier in the broadcast.
08:30Again, he said he's going to be out there on the flight deck to do another initial assessment of the
08:37crew.
08:37Ask them how they're feeling.
08:43Anything bothering them?
08:45But again, from what I'm seeing, they look like they're in great spirits and feeling pretty good
08:50for folks who just traveled 695,000 miles from Florida to the moon and now here to the Pacific Ocean.
08:58All right.
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