Artemis II Recovery

The crew of USS John P. Murtha takes a group picture with Lakiesha Hawkins, acting deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, Janet Petro, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and Lilian Villarreal, Artemis II landing and recovery director for Exploration Ground Systems at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the well deck of John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Naval Base San Diego after supporting recovery operations for NASA’s Artemis II mission. The agency’s Artemis II mission, which took NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth, splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT) on April 10 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)