{"id":261548,"date":"2026-04-10T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:58:23","slug":"final-course-correction-prepares-artemis-for-splashdown-today-off-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261548\/","title":{"rendered":"Final course correction prepares Artemis for splashdown today off San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Earth<\/a>A view of Earth from one of the windows on Artemis II. (Image from NASA video)<\/p>\n

The Artemis II<\/a> astronauts completed a final course correction just before noon in preparation for their 5:07 p.m. splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego.<\/p>\n

NASA said the spacecraft\u2019s rockets fired at 11:53 a.m. to make \u201cprecise adjustments to stay on its targeted course home.\u201d The Orion<\/a> capsule is scheduled to re-enter the atmosphere exactly five hours later.<\/p>\n

Re-entry later his afternoon will culminate a nearly 700,000-mile journey that is the first crewed trip to the Moon in over 50 years.<\/p>\n

You can watch the landing live on the free\u00a0NASA+ streaming service<\/a>\u00a0as well as Amazon Prime,\u00a0Apple TV,\u00a0Netflix,\u00a0HBO\u00a0Max,\u00a0Discovery+,\u00a0Peacock\u00a0and\u00a0Roku\u00a0with coverage beginning at 3:30 p.m. Many broadcast and cable networks will also have live coverage.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what NASA has scheduled to happen in the final minutes of the historic Moon flyby.<\/p>\n

At 4:33 p.m. the Orion capsule will separate from its service module, exposing the critical heat shield. Minutes later, the astronauts will maneuver the capsule to the proper angle for re-entry.<\/p>\n

At 4:53 p.m. the capsule will make first contact with the upper atmosphere. Traveling at nearly 24,000 miles per hour, the friction from the atmosphere will slow the craft while heating the outside to 3,000 degrees. Superheated plasma enveloping the craft will temporarily cut off radio communication.<\/p>\n

At 5:03 p.m., some 22,000 feet up, the first small drogue parachutes will deploy, followed at 5:04 p.m. by the main chutes at 6,000 feet.<\/p>\n

Finally, at 5:07 p.m., the Orion capsule will splash down at under 20 miles per hour near the USS John P. Murtha<\/a>, an amphibious transport dock ship from Naval Base San Diego.<\/p>\n

Navy divers will assist the astronauts onto an inflatable raft, and then MH-60S SeaHawk helicopters will fly them to the ship.<\/p>\n

Aboard the Murtha, the astronauts \u2014 NASA\u2019s\u00a0Reid Wiseman<\/a>,\u00a0Victor Glover<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Christina Koch<\/a>, and the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s \u00a0Jeremy Hansen<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 will be checked by doctors in the medical bay.<\/p>\n

The four will then be flown to North Island, where awaiting aircraft will take them to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view of Earth from one of the windows on Artemis II. (Image from NASA video) The Artemis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[105999,115015,3098,115016,74,76,75,113123],"class_list":{"0":"post-261548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-artemis-ii","9":"tag-heat-shield","10":"tag-nasa","11":"tag-re-entry","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-splashdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}