“I wanted to thank God in public,” Victor Glover said. “And I want to thank God again, because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did and being with who I was with… it\u2019s too big to just be in one body.”<\/p>\n
The appearance marked the crew’s first official public remarks after the mission<\/a>, which carried astronauts more than 200,000 miles from Earth before returning safely. Crew members described both the technical demands of the mission and the personal impact of the journey.<\/p>\n “I have not processed what we just did, and I\u2019m afraid to start even trying,” Glover said.<\/p>\n Artemis Ii Nears End Of Historic Mission With Splashdown Off California Coast<\/a><\/p>\n Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n “I wanted to thank our families for everything, and I want to thank our leadership. We are fortunate to be in this agency at this time together.”<\/p>\n Commander Reid Wiseman spoke about the bond formed among the crew during the mission.<\/p>\n “We are bonded forever and no one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through,”\u00a0Wiseman said. “And it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life.”<\/p>\n Artemis Ii Astronauts Face Toilet Trouble As They Head Toward The Moon<\/a><\/p>\n Wiseman also addressed the experience of being far from Earth and the impact on the astronauts’ families.<\/p>\n “No one knows what the families went through,” he said. “This was not easy, being 200,000+ miles away from home<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Mission specialist Christina Koch described how her understanding of teamwork evolved during the mission.<\/p>\n Split of Artemis II pilot Victor Glover and daughter, Maya Glover.<\/p>\n (Fox News)<\/p>\n Artemis Ii Pilot Victor Glover\u2019s Daughter Steals Spotlight In Viral Tribute: ‘First Daughter Of The Moon’<\/a><\/p>\n “A crew is people, that is in it all the time, no matter what, that is willing to sacrifice silently for each other,” Koch said. “A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked.”<\/p>\n “Earth was just this lifeboat, hanging undisturbingly in the universe\u2026 Planet Earth, you are a crew,” Koch said.<\/p>\n Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen highlighted the human experience of the mission and the support behind it.<\/p>\n Click Here To Download The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n “It\u2019s the human experience that is extraordinary for us,” Hansen said.<\/p>\n “Gratitude for my family, gratitude for NASA, gratitude for the teams. I don\u2019t think people will really ever fully comprehend how well supported and trained we were,” Hansen said.<\/p>\n![\"Split](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e3f8ca6317af915793dccca8f9fd6b15.jpeg\"\/)
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