{"id":245798,"date":"2026-04-12T02:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245798\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:45:10","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-back-in-houston-reunite-with-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245798\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II\u00a0Astronauts\u00a0Back in Houston,\u00a0Reunite with\u00a0Families\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Artemis II<\/a>\u00a0crew\u00a0of\u00a0NASA astronauts \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/reid-wiseman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reid Wiseman<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/victor-j-glover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Victor Glover<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/christina-koch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Christina Koch<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/astronauts\/canadian\/active\/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jeremy Hansen<\/a> \u2013 has returned to\u00a0the agency\u2019s\u00a0Johnson Space Center in Houston following\u00a0their\u00a0historic lunar flyby mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0first crewed test flight of\u00a0NASA\u2019s\u00a0Artemis program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/liftoff-nasa-launches-astronauts-on-historic-artemis-moon-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lifted off<\/a>\u00a0from Launch\u00a0Pad\u00a039B at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center\u00a0in Florida\u00a0at 6:35 p.m. EDT\u00a0April 1,\u00a0carrying\u00a0the first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than\u00a0half a century.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During their\u00a0nearly 10-day\u00a0mission,\u00a0the crew completed a record-setting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-beams-official-moon-flyby-photos-to-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lunar flyby<\/a>,\u00a0taking them 252,756 miles at their farthest distance from Earth\u00a0and 4,067 miles above the lunar surface at their closest approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-welcomes-record-setting-artemis-ii-moonfarers-back-to-earth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">splashed down<\/a>\u00a0at 8:07 p.m. April 10 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. Following splashdown and recovery, the four crew members underwent post-mission medical evaluations before returning to shore and boarding an aircraft bound for Houston. Upon arrival, the crew was welcomed by and reunited with their families, friends, and agency workforce. The crew now will begin their postflight reconditioning, medical and human performance evaluations, and lunar science debriefs.<\/p>\n<p>View the latest imagery from the Artemis II mission on\u202four\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-ii-multimedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Artemis II Multimedia Resource Page<\/a>. Please follow @NASAArtemis on\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nasaartemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAArtemis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nasaartemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>\u202ffor\u00a0post-mission updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Missions<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Artemis II\u00a0crew\u00a0of\u00a0NASA astronauts \u2013 Reid Wiseman,\u00a0Victor Glover,\u00a0and\u00a0Christina Koch,\u00a0and\u00a0CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut\u00a0Jeremy Hansen \u2013 has returned to\u00a0the agency\u2019s\u00a0Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90195,90196,90197,93607,90198,56,58,57,30077,90199,93608,90200],"class_list":{"0":"post-245798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-artemis-2","10":"tag-christina-h-koch","11":"tag-exploration-ground-systems","12":"tag-g-reid-wiseman","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-johnson-space-center","17":"tag-orion-multi-purpose-crew-vehicle","18":"tag-space-launch-system-sls","19":"tag-victor-j-glover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}