Artemis II Recovery

Lilian Villarreal, Artemis II landing and recovery director, is seen alongside other NASA and U.S. military recovery team members as they work inside the Landing Force Operations Center onboard USS John P. Murtha monitoring the recovery of NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT), NASA and U.S. military teams worked to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Date

2026-04-10

Photographer / author

NASA/Joel Kowsky

Collection

HQ

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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