You're listening to NASA's curious universe. I'm Jacob Pinter. The astronauts of NASA's

Artemis II mission, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hanson are back home.

Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, we are bonded forever.

And no one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through.

And it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life.

In this special update episode, how Artemis II ended.

We'll listen in to the moments the astronauts

return to Earth and splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean. And we'll hear the astronauts

recap their journey in their own words. The Artemis 2 astronauts flew their Orion spacecraft, which is named Integrity,

farther from Earth than any other human has ever traveled.

This was a test flight and a crucial step to eventually return humans to the moon's surface

through the Artemis program.

On day six of the mission, the astronauts flew around the moon, seeing parts of it that no other

unaided human eyes have ever seen.

In the moment, they relayed details to NASA scientists, and they brought back pictures,

videos, and voice notes that will keep scientists busy for a long time.

Then the astronauts spent several days traveling back home, and on day 10, they returned.

The final total on Integrity Zodometer, 694,481 miles,

or just a shade over 1.1 million kilometers.

In the final hours of NASA's live stream of Artemis 2 on April 10, 2026,

we watched as a partially lit earth grew larger and larger.

Integrity was almost home.

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