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They've been around the moon and back, and now the Artemis II crew is talking about what that experience was really like
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Millions watched as the Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific last Friday
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with Navy crews pulling Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen to safety
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The crew traveled farther than any astronauts in American history, and they say the experience forged a bond that will last a lifetime
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like this was an unbelievable adventure and it was made possible by this crew and and the support
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of each other throughout the whole thing and i've said it so many times we are just we are bonded
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forever i mean that's the closest four humans can be and not be a family we're all kind of struck by
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these things that make us feel small and that the sense i had was the sense of of fragility and
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feeling small infinitesimally small but yet this very powerful feeling as a human being like as a
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group. Christina Koch says two moments stuck with her. First, seeing Earth from deep space
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small and distant as they circled the moon. And second, the return home. Reentry was so intense
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she says the Orion capsule became a blazing fireball, almost impossible to look at as it tore back through the atmosphere
