Mission Complete: Artemis II Astronauts Return Home to Houston

Mission leaders celebrated the successful moonshot and look forward to gathering all of the flight data in preparation for Artemis III.

NASA’s Artemis II crew—(L–R) the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen and NASA's Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman—share brief remarks with friends, family, and colleagues at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston after returning to Earth from a nearly 10-day journey around the moon, on April 11, 2026. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas

HOUSTON—The first astronauts to fly around the moon in more than 50 years are finally back where they started.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, returned to Houston at about 3 p.m. CT on April 11, less than 24 hours after they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean inside their Orion crew capsule, Integrity.