The journey to the Moon’s orbit began on April 1st and was considered a success after the astronauts returned on the 10th.
NASA announced this Tuesday (14) a video that shows the rescue team entering to extract the four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, from the Artemis II Mission from inside the capsule after landing off the coast of California, in the United States, last Friday (10) after almost 10 days in space.
In the video, one of the rescue agents opens the Orion spacecraft module from the outside and celebrates “welcome home”, he says. He then enters the capsule and greets the four crew members who are apparently well and sitting waiting for the moment when they can leave.
The Artemis II Mission began on April 1, when Orion was launched in Florida, in the United States. Astronauts made history as . The team beat the previous record of 400,171 km, set by the Apollo 13 mission in the 1970s. The mission surpassed the previous mark by more than 6,600 km, reaching a distance of 406,778 km.
The four astronauts They were also the first to discover the hidden side of the Moon and go completely around the Earth’s natural satellite.
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