Artemis 2’s journey around the Moon ends with splashdown in Pacific Ocean

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- Associated Press

HOUSTON: Artemis II's astronauts closed out humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy.

It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes, but a total solar eclipse and a parade of planets, most notably our own shimmering Earth against the endless black void of space.

With their flight now complete, the four astronauts have set Nasa up for a moon landing by another crew in just two years and a full-blown moon base within the decade.