{"id":396921,"date":"2026-04-17T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:48:12","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-share-experience-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396921\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts share experience in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve been around the moon and back, and finally splashed back down to Earth about a week ago. The Artemis II journey was a historic moment for the crew, NASA and the entire U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Millions watched as the Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific last Friday, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/new-video-shows-moment-artemis-ii-crew-was-welcomed-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Navy crews pulling<\/a>\u00a0Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen to safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/new-video-shows-moment-artemis-ii-crew-was-welcomed-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the splashdown<\/a> shows Navy sailors shouting \u201cwelcome home\u201d to the crew as the astronauts were all smiles and cheers. <\/p>\n<p>An unbelievable experience<\/p>\n<p>Now, the <a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/planet-earth-you-are-a-crew-artemis-ii-astronauts-talk-about-moon-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis II crew<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/artemis-astronauts-interview-cbs-evening-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sharing what that experience was really like<\/a>, both in space and when returning home. <\/p>\n<p>The crew traveled farther than any astronauts in American history, and they say the experience forged a bond that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an unbelievable adventure, and it was made possible by this crew and the support of each other throughout the whole thing,\u201d Wiseman said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve said it so many times, we are just, we are bonded forever. I mean, that\u2019s the closest four humans can be and not be a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-san-app-download__qr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/app-download-block-qr-code.png\" alt=\"QR code for SAN app download\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-san-app-download__title\">\n\t\t\tDownload the SAN app today to stay up-to-date with Unbiased. Straight Facts\u2122.\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-san-app-download__subtitle\">\n\t\t\tPoint phone camera here\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hansen described the feeling of being in space as \u201cinfinitesimally small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all kind of struck by these things that make us feel small, and that the sense I had was the sense of fragility and feeling small and infinitesimally small. But yet this very powerful feeling as a human being, like as a group,\u201d Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, said.<\/p>\n<p>For Koch,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/artemis-ii-astronauts-describe-return-earth-nasa-moon-mission-rcna331910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">two moments stood out<\/a>. First, seeing Earth from deep space, small and distant as they circled the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I go to the beach now, I look up at the blue sky and imagine what it looks like from really, really far away, where it wasn\u2019t an absolute, it wasn\u2019t just a background of everything we see, it was small, compared to the universe around it,\u201d she told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>And second,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/artemis-ii-crew-successfully-plunges-into-pacific-after-moon-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the return home<\/a>. She said the reentry was so intense when the Orion capsule became a blazing fireball, almost impossible to look at as it tore back through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>What comes next for space travel?<\/p>\n<p>Now, NASA shifts to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>Artemis III \u2014 set for next year \u2014 will keep astronauts in Earth\u2019s orbit as they practice docking the Orion capsule with a commercial lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a critical step before any return to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>And after that, Artemis IV, targeting 2028, could put astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve been around the moon and back, and finally splashed back down to Earth about a week ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-396921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396921","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=396921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}