00:00After blazing new records near the moon, Artemis II's astronauts completed humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a
00:08century with a Pacific splashdown in the early hours of Saturday.
00:12The triumphant moonfarers emerged from their bobbin capsule into the sunlight off the coast of San Diego, a dramatic grand
00:20finale to a mission that revealed not only swords of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes.
00:27Military helicopters lifted the astronauts one by one from an inflatable raft attached to the capsule, transporting them on board
00:36for the brief journey to the Navy's waiting recovery ship.
00:40Artemis II didn't land on the moon or even orbit it, but it broke Apollo 13's distance record and marked
00:47the farthest that humans have ever journeyed from Earth when the crew reached nearly 407,000 kilometers.
00:54With their flights now complete, the four astronauts have set NASA up for a moon landing by another crew in
01:01just two years and a full-blown moon base within the decade.
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