Overview
- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are taking questions at Johnson Space Center on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. ET following Friday’s Pacific splashdown near San Diego.
- NASA says the 10‑day mission validated Orion life support and manual piloting, executed course changes and a lunar flyby with far‑side views, and set a new human distance record from Earth.
- Initial inspections indicate the Orion heat shield performed as expected with no unexpected conditions reported, though a full, instrumented review will occur after the capsule returns to Kennedy Space Center.
- The crew wore ARCHeR sensors that tracked sleep, stress, heart‑rate variability and cognition in deep space, yielding the first beyond‑LEO human health dataset since Apollo to guide countermeasures for longer trips.
- Program leaders plan an added preparatory flight before attempting a south‑pole surface mission targeted for 2028, using Artemis II imagery, crew observations and hardware data to fine‑tune procedures and risk models.