NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as members of agency’s Landing and Recovery team perform hazard checks after recovering the spacecraft...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as members of agency’s Landing and Recovery team perform hazard checks after recovering the spacecraft into the well deck of USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT) on April 10. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)