NASA’s Artemis II crew have successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 8:07 p.m. EDT (5:07 p.m. PDT) on Friday. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have been safely extracted from the Orion spacecraft after a 10-day journey to the Moon.
Engineers will conduct several additional tests while Orion is in the water before powering down the spacecraft and handing it over…