The dramatic moment when Artemis II lands in the Pacific after the historic mission

The three Americans and a Canadian have returned with a dramatic landing as their capsule was parachuted into the Pacific to close a nearly ten - day journey toward the moon.

The crew of four was the first to approach the moon since the NASA Apollo era, more than half a century ago.

Artemis II set a record distance for space travel during lunar flight, exceeding Apollo 13 of the 1970s.

Hideting behind the distant side of the moon, astronauts captured unprecedented images from the human eye and a total solar eclipse. Return to Earth was the most dangerous phase of the mission, even testing the ship built by Lockheed Martin, reports Telegraph, broadcast https://www.periscope.com/.

This moment testified that the capsule's thermal shield could withstand extreme forces during the recovery in the atmosphere by the moon's return trajectory. /Periscope