Overview
- NASA said the Orion capsule landed in the Pacific near San Diego after high-speed reentry, ending the crew’s test flight.
- Recovery teams brought Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen aboard the USS John P. Murtha for medical checks.
- The crew looped around the Moon to trial deep-space navigation, life support, and communications, and they captured new high-resolution images.
- Reentry validated the heat shield through peak heating and a planned communications blackout before parachutes slowed the descent.
- The mission, launched April 1 on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, sets up a crewed lunar landing attempt later this decade under the Artemis program.