Artemis II: 13. Splashdown
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After 9 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes and 15 seconds and 1.1 million kilometres of travel, the Orion “Integrity” probe splashed down successfully on April 11th at 00:07:32 UTC (GMT).
Tim Peake, Maggie Aderin, Kristin Fisher, Rebecca Morelle and the 13 Minutes podcast touches down with this episode. We are also joined by Nasa legend and former shuttle astronaut, Dr Anna Fisher to reflect on the mission.
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II will return...
But before then, watch Maggie and Tim in BBC Horizon ‘s “Artemis: To the Moon and Back", to see and learn more about the years leading up to this mission.
Season 4 theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is a BBC Audio Science production for the BBC World Service.
Presenters: Tim Peake and Maggie Aderin Producers: Alex Mansfield and Sophie Ormiston Series editor: Martin Smith Commissioning team: Jon Manel, Anne Dixey and Katy Davis
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
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| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
| 0:17.2 | They often say, look, we built the nation. |
| 0:19.2 | And without us, South Korea as it exists today, |
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| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to 13 Minutes Presents Artemis 2 from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm astronaut Tim Peake and this is episode 13. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm space scientist Maggie Adairn. |
| 0:48.0 | We're following the progress of the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years. |
| 0:53.3 | And today, we welcome back for Artemis 2 |
| 0:56.8 | astronauts. |
| 1:03.9 | Hsuagherty, Splashdown, sending post-landing command now. |
| 1:08.2 | Splashdown confirmed. Copy Splashdown waiting on VLDR. Perfect communications |
| 1:14.5 | established. We are stable one, four green crew members. Yes, Artemis II crew successfully |
| 1:23.5 | splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, exactly when and where it was planned to do so many weeks ago. |
| 1:29.6 | And once again, we're joined by space journalist Kristen Fisher. |
| 1:33.6 | Hi, Kristen. |
| 1:34.7 | Hi, Maggie. Hi, Tim. |
| 1:36.9 | I feel like I'm suffering from a bit of a post-mission hangover. |
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