Artemis II Recovery

Lilian Villarreal, Artemis II landing and recovery director for Exploration Ground Systems at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, left, and Lakiesha Hawkins, acting deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, right, are seen as they walk around the agency’s Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Naval Base San Diego in California. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT) on April 10 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Date

2026-04-11

Photographer / author

NASA/Joel Kowsky

Collection

HQ

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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