Howard Hu Artemis II Orion Crew Module Returns to KSC

This close-up photograph shows NASA’s Orion spacecraft inside 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. During reentry, the Orion spacecraft hits Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 mph.