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After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home.

Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming.

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

Artemis II remains on course for its lunar flyby as the crew shares historic photos of Earth, tests key systems for future lunar missions, and attempts to fix the toilet.

The astronauts will arrive about 10,300 kilometers beyond our satellite, breaking all previous records for distance from Earth. But how was their route chosen?

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before.

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.