Artemis II astronauts hurtle house from moon towards splashdown

The 4 Artemis II astronauts, getting back from the world’s first crewed moon voyage in over ​half a century, hurtled again towards Earth on Friday aboard their gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft, headed for a splashdown within the Pacific Ocean off Southern California. The finale to NASA’s celebrated 10-day mission was anticipated to start with separation of Orion’s crew capsule from its service module, adopted by a fiery re-entry via Earth’s environment and a six-minute radio ​blackout earlier than the capsule parachutes ‌into the ocean.