# The Artemis II mission came to an end on Friday evening after a textbook splashdown.

*aerospace · news · 2026-04-11 · FOX Weather*

## Key points

- Artemis II crew traveled 694,481 miles, setting a record for humans in deep space.
- Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen performed a manual piloting test of Orion for engineering data.
- The crew became the first people to wear solar eclipse glasses on the moon during a lunar eclipse.
- Never-before-seen images of the moon's far side and detailed geologic observations were captured during a 40-minute blackout.
- The successful mission marks the first astronaut journey to the moon in over 50 years.

**Companies:** NASA
**Countries:** United States, Canada

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