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WASHINGTON, Apr 11: Amid claps and cheers, four astronauts of NASA\u2019s Artemis-II mission splashed down in the Pacific ocean after a historic flight to the moon \u2013 the first by humans in more than 50 years.
\n\u201cThe path to the moon is open but the work ahead is greater than the work behind,\u201d Amit Kshatriya, Indian-origin NASA Associate Administrator told a press conference shortly after the Artemis-II crew returned to earth off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 eastern time on Friday.
\nThe lunar flyby mission involving Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada\u2019s Jeremy Hansen was the first journey to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 when Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent three days exploring the lunar surface.
\nRick Henfling, the flight director, said the Artemis II astronauts are \u201chappy and healthy and ready to come home to Houston.\u201d \u201cYesterday, flight director Jeff Radigan said we had less than a degree of an angle to hit after a quarter of a million miles to the moon,\u201d Kshatriya told a press conference.
\n\u201cAnd their team hit it. This is not luck; that is 1,000 people doing their job,\u201d he said.
\nThe mission flew 700,237 miles; its peak velocity was 24,664 m.p.h.; and the flight had an entry range of 1,957 miles but landed within one mile of its target, Henfling said.
\nIt was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon\u2019s far side never seen before by human eyes but a total solar eclipse. They emerged from their bobbing capsule into the sunlight one by one.
\nHenfling said his team \u2018breathed a sigh of relief\u2019 once the side hatch opened on the Orion Integrity after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.We all breathed a sigh of relief once the hatch opened up. That\u2019s when we brought the team in,\u201d he said. \u201cWe said a few words to the flight controllers, and then we turned around to the families and waved and gave them a thumbs up, and we all watched as each of their four astronauts got out of the spaceship and were hoisted up onto the helicopters. It was a great day,\u201d he added.
\nHenfling said his team felt \u201canxiety\u201d as the four astronauts re-entered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, but felt confident in all their training leading up to the history-making lunar mission.
\nNASA said the Artemis III mission is \u201cright around the corner\u201d following its history-making journey around the moon. \u201cThe next mission is right around the corner, and you know, we\u2019ll take the lessons learned from Artemis II,\u201d Henfling said. \u201cWe learned a bunch on how to fly people in space, both from vehicle operations, but also from how to run a control room with a deep space mission. And when the time is right, we\u2019ll get back into specific training, and we\u2019ve got a core group of about 30 flight directors, and they\u2019re all extremely capable.
\n\u201cI think anybody who\u2019s assigned to that next mission is going to be as successful as us,\u201d Henfling said.<\/p>\n

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