Artemis II safely splashes down

eqmvii

Held my breath the whole time after all the heat shield warnings. Very glad it all worked, or that there was enough margin!

llbbdd

"Reid Wiesman reporting all crew members green; that's not their complexion, all crew members are in good shape."

sonicrocketman

Apropos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG6NNnoNC80

java-man

I noticed a delay between video and audio - the announcer on the NASA official live broadcast said splashdown before the the capsule splashed down on video. Was it intentional (in case something happened)? Also, what were these puffs on thermal camera after the main chutes were deployed? https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs

areoform

Glad that they're safe and sound. It's worth pointing out that this is the first extremely public, widely acknowledged high risk mission NASA has done in over 50 years. The Shuttle was risky, but it wasn't thought of or acknowledged by NASA as being risky until very late in its lifecycle. According to NASA's OIG, Artemis acceptable crew mortality rate is 1 in 30. Roughly 3x riskier than the shuttle. There genuinely is a world where they don't make it back home. I am grateful that they did. And I'm grateful that we're going to go even further. I can't wait to see what Jared's cooking up (for those who don't know, he made his own version of the Gemini program in Polaris and funded it out of pocket).

darepublic

Cheers! Looking forward to future space travel!!

rvz

Now this is actually for the benefit of humanity.

echoangle

Wild that they manage to fly to the moon but still seem to be having those comms problems. Asking the astronauts if they’re really pressing the PTT button is wild.

carefree-bob

"NASA reporting four green crew members. That is not their complexion, it is that they are in good condition. That's what that means." LOL

qrush

Apparently there's more work than just clicking "Recover Vessel" after splashdown!

kethinov

For All Mankind aired an episode today that movingly commemorated the fictional lead character Ed Baldwin's Apollo 10-like in-universe mission on the same day that the real world Artemis II mission which also strongly resembles Apollo 10 landed safely. A strange and moving coincidence.

credit_guy

This almost brought tears to my eyes. I can only imagine how people felt when the first astronauts got to the Moon, and then when they got back to Earth in one piece.

jrmg

It’s been amazing - and inspirational - watching the live stream of Mission Control and the capsule over the last ten days. Or at least having it as background audio. I’m going to miss all these folks I’ve grown to know. Bring on Artemis III and IV!

elcapitan

This whole mission was amazing, and the most positive and hopeful thing I have seen as a global event in the last 5 years at least. Bravo and cheers to everyone involved :)

BoredPositron

I don't know how to describe the feeling but it feels like a bad movie remake. Maybe I am just a sucker for practical effects and not 2020s CGI to stick with the metaphor and conspiracy...

Gagarin1917

Watching that capsule fall out of the sky at high speed from the teaching cameras was nerve wracking! Awesome footage, exciting to watch it live in such detail.

pwndByDeath

As a long time space nerd, I'm not sure what this accomplishes by repeating the previous stunts that failed to usher in the promised space frontier. Apollo was, IMO, not successful at changing the course of human history. A really cool footnote, sure, but everything else that was to follow, nope, just a bunch of neat, interesting but ultimately meh science missions. An exciting change would be more like Delta-V/Critical Mass, but NASA is not going to deliver that, at least not in any form it has taken thus far.

ggm

Dear NASA. Please dial back the poetics and rhetoric. Be more like ATC than Shakspear.

latchkey

Went out to the beach hoping to hear/see something, but sadly grey skies and no boom. Tons of other people out there doing the same thing too.

nodesocket

Amazing live video of the descent and splash down. Really awesome to watch!