NASA releases first photos of astronauts after returning to Earth; look

The quartet of astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen, set off from Florida on April 1 and traveled further in space than any other human being

Photo by BILL INGALLS/NASA/AFP
The quartet of astronauts made history on a lunar flyby.

A NASA released the first photos of astronauts of the Artemis II mission after returning to Earth.

successfully completing the test flight around the Moon, the first since the end of the Apollo Program in the 1970s.

After a brief communications blackout during reentry, Commander Reid Wiseman reestablished contact with the control center in Houston and confirmed that everyone was fine.

Americans Christina Koch and Victor Glover, along with Wiseman and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, set off from Florida on April 1 and traveled further into space than any other human being, returning with hundreds of gigabytes of data from the mission.

A capsule was rescued by the United States Navyfollowing historical protocols used since the first lunar missions.

See images of the return of the Artemis II mission

*With information from AFP

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