00:01It was late on Friday that the Orion space capsule splashed down in the sea just off the California coast.
00:08Inside, it carried four astronauts from the Artemis II space mission,
00:12all in good health and just as elated as officials at NASA, the U.S. space agency.
00:19The splashdown marked the end of the nearly 10 days long mission
00:23that included the first lunar flyby in over 50 years.
00:28The crew's return to Earth was the most critical moment of the entire mission.
00:33It was a key test of the capsule's heat shield, which in an earlier trial had experienced complications.
00:41The Orion capsule will now be painstakingly examined to assess how it fared.
00:47The four astronauts were meanwhile extracted from the capsule and taken to a recovery ship.
00:53Aside from the lunar flyby, the mission also saw some other historic achievements.
00:59Pilot Victor Glover was the first person of colour to fly around the moon.
01:03Christina Koch was the first woman and Canadian Jeremy Hansen the first non-American.
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