{"id":71431,"date":"2026-04-11T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/astronauts-back-on-earth-artemis-ii-crew-splashes-down-after-record-breaking-moon-flyby-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:55:04","slug":"astronauts-back-on-earth-artemis-ii-crew-splashes-down-after-record-breaking-moon-flyby-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/astronauts-back-on-earth-artemis-ii-crew-splashes-down-after-record-breaking-moon-flyby-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Astronauts back on Earth&#8217;: Artemis II crew splashes down after record-breaking moon flyby \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday night, with all four astronauts in good health. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch of Nasa, and the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Jeremy Hansen, have just become the first humans to travel to the moon, and return to Earth safely, since the crew of Apollo 17 in December 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/apr\/10\/artemis-ii-landing-return-moon-mission\">\u2018Just the beginning\u2019: Artemis II crew splashes down after record-breaking moon flyby<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2026\/apr\/11\/artemis-ii-splashdown-in-pictures\">Artemis II splashdown! \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/video\/2026\/apr\/11\/astronauts-back-on-earth-artemis-ii-crew-splashes-down-after-record-breaking-moon-flyby-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday night, with all four astronauts in good health. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch of Nasa, and the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Jeremy Hansen, have &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Astronauts back on Earth&#8217;: Artemis II crew splashes down after record-breaking moon flyby \u2013\u00a0video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/astronauts-back-on-earth-artemis-ii-crew-splashes-down-after-record-breaking-moon-flyby-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Astronauts back on Earth&#8217;: Artemis II crew splashes down after record-breaking moon flyby \u2013\u00a0video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}