{"id":598063,"date":"2026-04-10T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:49:11","slug":"watch-nasas-artemis-2-astronauts-return-to-earth-live-online-today-april-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598063\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts return to Earth live online today (April 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch live! Artemis 2 astronauts return to Earth after historic moon mission – YouTube
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Today, April 10, NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts are set to return to Earth from the moon, bringing their historic 10-day mission to a close.<\/p>\n

Live coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). You can watch all the action here on Space.com and on our YouTube channel<\/a> courtesy of NASA. You can also follow along with the latest news on our Artemis 2 live updates page<\/a>. NASA is also providing simulcasts of the mission on Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services, as well as on its own website, the NASA+ streaming service and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Splashdown is expected at approximately 8:07 p.m. EDT <\/a>(0007 GMT on April 11) off the coast of California<\/a> \u2014 a similar location to where the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission landed in December 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Orion capsule shortly after splashdown during the Artemis 1 mission, Dec. 11, 2022. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

The four astronauts, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere<\/a> at speeds of up to 24,000 mph (38,600 kph). During the spacecraft’s roughly 13-minute descent, the Orion capsule will endure temperatures of up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n

A heat shield<\/a> will protect the crew as parachutes deploy to slow the capsule before it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

The astronauts will then be recovered by the USS John Murtha and escorted back to shore.<\/p>\n

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The mission marks the first crewed journey to the moon<\/a> in more than 50 years and a major milestone in NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the lunar surface with Artemis 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch live! Artemis 2 astronauts return to Earth after historic moon mission – YouTube Watch On Today, April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-598063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}