NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, center, is greeted by Capt. Erik Kenny, commanding officer, USS John P. Murtha (LPD), right, after...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, center, is greeted by Capt. Erik Kenny, commanding officer, USS John P. Murtha (LPD), right, after Isaacman arrived on a U.S. Navy CMV-22 Osprey with Michael Altenhofen, senior advisor to the NASA Administrator, U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Brent DeVore, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Three, Michael Altenhofen, senior advisor to the NASA Administrator, and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael A. Valle, Deputy Commander, First Air Force, as NASA and U.S. military teams prepare for the the return of the Artemis II crew members to Earth, Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA’s Artemis II mission is taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft. Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen are scheduled to splash down off the coast of San Diego at approximately 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT).