{"id":386265,"date":"2026-04-11T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/386265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:57:09","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-splash-down-off-californias-coast-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/386265\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts splash down off California\u2019s coast: Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap26092807394790.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B on April 1, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntszbfl0003356qia9n5j4l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            NASA officials were asked to name their favorite moments from the Artemis II mission during a post-splashdown news conference.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntt0ouu0005356qlvydul86@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Shawn Quinn, manager of NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, named launch day and watching the rocket rise off the pad as his.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntt1px00006356qwgcqxe3y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou know, for me, the greatest moment was the parachutes, the main chutes deploying,\u201d said Howard Hu, NASA\u2019s Orion program manager. \u201cI think seeing that, I was chanting, \u2018go, go, go\u2019 by myself. That was just a tremendous moment. Objective No. 1 is \u2018get the crew home.\u2019\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntt3uch0007356qi5abnobi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Rick Henfling, entry flight director, chose the crew\u2019s naming of the two craters on the lunar surface, including one for Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman\u2019s late wife, as his top moment.\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-55200111364-d9b54c1e7e-o.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist is assisted off the flight deck after arriving aboard USS John P. Murtha.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1675\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntt4czf0008356qusp0j0dp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, picked two: when Wiseman reported \u201cfour crew green\u201d after splashdown to indicate they were in good shape and watching NASA astronaut Christina Koch as the first to emerge from the capsule.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmntt64560009356qwcwl8u56@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Amit Kshatriya, NASA associate administrator, closed with, \u201cIt\u2019ll be tomorrow when I see my friends again,\u201d referring to the crew.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA officials were asked to name their favorite moments from the Artemis II mission during a post-splashdown news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-386265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}