Howard Hu Artemis II Orion Crew Module Returns to KSC

Howard Hu, manager, Orion Program, inspects NASA’s Orion spacecraft following its arrival at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Multi-Payload Processing Facility in Florida on Thursday, April 30, 2026, for de-servicing operations on the spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down on Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean following its approximate 10-day journey around the Moon carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen for the Artemis II test flight mission.