The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission splashed down on Earth, after a successful visit to the moon.

Artemis 2's Victor Glover and Christina Koch are all smiles after splashdown.

The Artemis II astronauts flew back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday to cheers and applause from family members and hundreds of NASA workers.

Artemis II's moon-traveling astronauts are back home and feted to a thunderous welcome. Still marveling over their record-breaking lunar fly-around, the crew of four flew to Houston's Ellington Field from San Diego on Saturday afternoon.

The crewmembers splashed down Friday after breaking a space-faring record and viewing lunar features never seen by human eyes during their ten-day trip. It marks the first time anyone has left Earth's

Leidos developed a Laser Air Monitoring System (LAMS) for the Orion spacecraft that constantly checks the air quality astronauts breathe.

Almost as soon as they arrived at the Moon, gravity started pulling the astronauts back home. The four-day homebound cruise ended with an on-target reentry, with the Orion capsule reaching a top speed of some 24,661 mph, just shy of the all-time human speed record set on the Apollo 10 mission returning from the Moon in 1969.

Artemis 2 and ISS astronauts held a historic deep-space call across 232,000 miles, sharing views, routines, and life in orbit and near the Moon

The four Artemis II astronauts said Saturday that they're "bonded forever" in their first public remarks one day after completing NASA's first lunar mission in more than 50 years

After swooping around the moon, viewing an eclipse, breaking an Apollo distance record and testing out a space toilet, NASA's Artemis II mission is about to return to Earth. Here's what the astronauts must face to make it safely home.

With NASA's lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash, the space agency already has the next Artemis flight in its sights.