NASA’s Artemis II crew—(L–R) the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen and NASA's Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman—share brief remarks with friends, family, and colleagues at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston after returning to Earth from a nearly 10-day journey around the moon, on April 11, 2026. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
HOUSTON—The first astronauts to fly around the moon in more than 50 years are finally back where they started.
NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, returned to Houston at about 3 p.m. CT on April 11, less than 24 hours after they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean inside their Orion crew capsule, Integrity.
T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.
