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Artemis II astronauts returning to Earth after historic crewed Moon mission | The Jerusalem Post

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“The four Artemis II astronauts, returning from the world's first crewed Moon voyage in over half a century, hurtled back toward Earth on Friday aboard their gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft, headed for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off southern California.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that launched on November 16, 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is a ten-day lunar flyby mission that launched on April 1, 2026. With a crew of four astronauts, it is the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program and the first crewed flight be…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States. The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-ter…
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“The finale to NASA's celebrated 10-day mission was expected to begin with the separation of Orion's crew capsule from its service module, followed by a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere and a six-minute radio blackout before the capsule parachutes into the sea.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is a ten-day lunar flyby mission that launched on April 1, 2026. With a crew of four astronauts, it is the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program and the first crewed flight be…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hello, World is a photograph of Earth taken by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, published April 3, 2026. Captured during the spacecraft's outbound…
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“If all goes well, US astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will end up bobbing safely in the ocean aboard their Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, shortly after 8 p.m. ET off the coast of San Diego.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christina Hammock Koch ( KUUK; née Hammock; born January 29, 1979) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her long-term mission to the International Space Station in 2019–2020, she conducted t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used by NASA for the Artemis lunar exploration program. It consists of a crew module (CM), a space capsule built b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Victor Jerome Glover Jr. (born April 30, 1976) is an American naval officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut of the 2013 class. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pi…
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“The quartet blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, lofted into an initial Earth orbit by NASA's giant Space Launch System rocket before sailing on around the far side of the Moon, venturing deeper into space than any humans before them.”
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“They became the first astronauts to fly in the vicinity of the Moon since the Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s.”
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“Glover, Koch and Hansen also made history as the first Black astronaut, the first woman and first non-US citizen, respectively, to take part in a lunar mission.”
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“The voyage, following the uncrewed Artemis I test flight around the Moon by the Orion spacecraft in 2022, marked a critical dress rehearsal for a planned attempt later this decade to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in late 1972.”
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“The ultimate goal of the Artemis program is to establish a long-term presence on the Moon as a stepping stone to eventual human exploration of Mars.”
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“The return to Earth will put the Orion spacecraft through a critical test of its heat shield, which sustained an unexpected level of scorching and stress on re-entry during the 2022 test flight.”
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“Still, with Orion plunging into the atmosphere at some 25,000 miles per hour (40,235 kph), temperatures outside the capsule are expected to soar to around 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius).”
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“At the flight's peak, the crew reached a point 252,756 miles from Earth, exceeding the previous record of roughly 248,000 miles set in 1970 by the crew of Apollo 13.”
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