Artemis II Astronauts Recall 'Otherworldly' Moments in Space One Week After Returning to Earth
By Paloma Chavez
Published on April 18, 2026.
Four astronauts have returned from a 10-day mission aboard Artemis II, marking the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew, including NASA's Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and commander Reid Wiseman from NASA, set a record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth from Earth, surpassing the record of 248,655 miles set by the Apollo 13 flight crew in 1970. The mission was part of a test flight in hopes of humans returning to the moon's surface within two years. The astronauts returned to Earth a week after the mission, with some expressing their feelings about the experience.
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