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Heartwarming video shows Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch reuniting with her dog

Nbcwashington · · 323 words · By Francie Ebert; NBC News
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“NASA astronaut Christina Koch, one of the four Artemis II crew members, is seen entering her home after returning from her space mission”
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Multiple sources, including NASA and Wikipedia, confirm Christina Koch is a member of the Artemis II crew. Web search results confirm the crew returned home after a 10-day lunar flyby.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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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 mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Koch
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As part of the Artemis program by NASA, crews of four astronauts are planned to fly lunar missions beginning in 2026. The Artemis II flyby of the Moon included the first four astronauts to fly beyond …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Artemis_astronauts
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“Koch and her fellow Artemis II crew members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — traveled a total of 694,481 miles”
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While sources confirm the crew members (Koch, Wiseman, Glover, Hansen) and the mission, none of the provided evidence mentions the specific total distance traveled of '694,481 miles'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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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 mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Koch
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As part of the Artemis program by NASA, crews of four astronauts are planned to fly lunar missions beginning in 2026. The Artemis II flyby of the Moon included the first four astronauts to fly beyond …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Artemis_astronauts
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“making their lunar flyby the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth”
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Multiple independent sources (Medium, LinkedIn, AOL) and the Guardian cross-reference confirm that the Artemis II crew traveled farther from Earth than any previous humans.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is an upcoming spaceflight mission, planned to be the second crewed mission in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, with a targeted launch in late 2027. The crew will launch aboard th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As part of the Artemis program by NASA, crews of four astronauts are planned to fly lunar missions beginning in 2026. The Artemis II flyby of the Moon included the first four astronauts to fly beyond …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Artemis_astronauts
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“The previous distance record was set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970”
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The Guardian and multiple web search results explicitly state that the previous distance record was held by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions
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“After 10 days in space, the Artemis II crew safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego”
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Sky News and other web search results confirm the 10-day duration and the splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
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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), aimed at returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is an upcoming spaceflight mission, planned to be the second crewed mission in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, with a targeted launch in late 2027. The crew will launch aboard th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
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