Navy divers, ship set to recover Artemis II crew
Four astronauts are scheduled to complete their trip to the moon with a splashdown off the coast of Southern California this evening. And when they do, a specialized Navy team will be waiting for them.
The Artemis II mission is on its tenth and final day, after taking humans into lunar orbit for the first time in five decades. The Orion space capsule carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, is expected to land roughly 60 miles offshore of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Eastern Time.
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