Watch the Artemis crew deliver their first remarks after splashdown | ITV News

The four Artemis II mission astronauts delivered their first public remarks since splashing back down to earth on Friday.

Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, with Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen spoke in Ellington Field, Houston - nearby NASA's Johnson Space Centre. 

Artemis II’s astronauts completed the first lunar voyage in more than half a century, landing safely in the Pacific Ocean. The four astronauts have set NASA up for a moon landing by another crew in just two years and a future permanent moon base within the decade.

Their Orion capsule, dubbed 'Integrity', made the entire plunge on autopilot. The lunar cruiser hit the atmosphere travelling at 33 times the speed of sound.

The last time NASA and the Defence Department teamed up for a lunar crew’s reentry was Apollo 17 in 1972.

Koch became the first woman to fly to the moon, Glover the first Black astronaut, and Hansen the first non-US citizen.

Pictures provided by NASA.

  
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