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Artemis II astronauts safely returned to Earth with a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California early Saturday after completing a historic lunar flyby mission. The Orion spacecraft reentered precisely, marking a key milestone for future deep space exploration. NASA held a live news conference following the recovery, where teams confirmed crew safety. Joint NASA and US military teams swiftly retrieved the capsule and provided immediate medical support to the returning astronauts.


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00:00A modern-day mission to the moon, a new chapter of the exploration of our celestial neighbor
00:05is complete. Integrity's astronauts, back on Earth.
00:20Jubilation here. We should be out of the blackout period less than a minute from now.
00:47We are now processing data from Integrity.
01:06Landing and Support Officer reports the small boats are en route to the splashdown target zone.
01:46Passing through 150,000 feet. Our trajectory is perfect. We're getting intermittent views
01:54of Integrity. Still waiting to establish voice communication.
02:04Integrity, Houston, comm check post-blackout.
02:09Houston, Integrity, we have you loud and clear.
02:13Your trajectory is nominal and your recovery teams have visual.
02:20Guidance looks good.
02:23No action for the enabled internal camera controller fail.
02:28Big cheers from the viewing room here in Mission Control as voice communication reestablished
02:33with Commander Reed Wiseman.
02:36For America in a waiting world, Integrity is five and a half minutes away from coming home.
02:52Passing 100,000 feet now.
02:58Range to splashdown 19 nautical miles.
03:03G
03:43We're processing good data through the GPS system, a good view of integrity, time to splash
03:49down four and a half minutes.
03:57And a view of integrity from the WB-57, we're at 50,000 feet.
04:23The Pyros are armed for forward bay cover jettison.
04:44And there go the first series of parachutes, and we're on drogues.
04:50And Houston, we're visual two drogues out the window.
04:56Two good drogues.
04:58Next up.
04:59We copy.
05:00We see them.
05:01Next up, the deployment of pilot parachutes that will pull the main chutes out.
05:06Time to splash down three minutes and ten seconds.
05:20Perfect descent rate according to flight dynamics.
05:25We see the same on board.
05:41Passing through 10,000 feet, still on drogues.
05:59Main chute deploy.
06:10Main chute deploy.
06:18And we have three good main chutes.
06:23Good three main chutes.
06:25Good reefing.
06:25Good descent rate.
06:26Good rates, and we see three good-looking parachutes.
06:42Integrity.
06:43Cabin pressure indicates no need for hydrazine checks.
06:48Integrity copies.
06:52This is a perfect descent for Integrity.
06:56Its crew sounding hale and hearty on board.
07:01Time to splash down one minute, 15 seconds.
07:17Integrity about to complete a journey spanning 694,481 miles from its launch from the Kennedy
07:26Space Center back on April 1st, and a trip around the moon.
07:30Committee member.
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08:03Passing through 1,000 feet.
08:44Houston Integrity, Splashdown, sending post landing command now.
08:49Splashdown confirmed.
08:50Copy Splashdown, waiting on VLDR.
08:53Splashdown confirmed at 7.07 p.m. Central Time, 5.07 p.m. Pacific Time.
09:00From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern-day mission to the moon, a new chapter of the
09:06exploration of our celestial neighbor is complete.
09:09Integrity's astronauts, back on Earth.
09:21And the landing and support officer reports the vehicle is stable one.
09:24We still will be deploying the crew module uprighting system to maintain that orientation.
09:30A perfect bullseye splashdown for Integrity and its four astronauts.
09:44Jubilation here in the flight control room, the first crew member is out of Integrity.
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09:59There are two.
09:59So now we're going to go off the one.
09:59I don't know.
09:59I know I couldn't think of you.
09:59I don't know.
09:59I don't know.
09:59I know.
10:00It's the first one.
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