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Artemis II crew emotional as mission prepares for reentry

dw.com·Wesley Rahn·about 2 months ago
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The four astronauts aboard the  Artemis II mission's Orion spacecraft spoke to the press from space for the first time since completing a lunar flyby that took them a record distance from earth . After becoming the first humans to directly observe the far-side of the moon, emotions are running high as the crew prepares to reenter the earth's atmosphere and splash down on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast. "Human minds should not go through what these just went through," said NASA's Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman. A crescent earth seen rising from the moon Image: NASA/Handout/REUTERS "We have a lot that we just need to think about and journal and write, and then we'll get the full feeling of what we just went through," he told the press conference. Wiseman added witnessing a solar eclipse from space had a deep impact on him.…

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