{"id":406383,"date":"2026-04-16T00:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c7cb49ca1a48d005aeedfc195107efe1"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:37:38","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-returns-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=406383","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Crew Returns to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch smile at the crowd during a news conference. They are all wearing blue jumpsuits with patches on the arms and chest areas. Wiseman raises his right fist in a victorious pose.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg 7226w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jsc2026e022311orig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Helen Arase Vargas<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\">Artemis II<\/a> crew \u2013 NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen \u2013 smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/DYY4nnfxKbU?si=IKi67D1sSkGI2JaC&amp;t=3122\" rel=\"noopener\">brief remarks<\/a> with the crowd after landing at Ellington Airport near NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, 2026, after a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>View the latest imagery from the Artemis II mission on\u202four\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-ii-multimedia\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artemis II Multimedia Resource Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Helen Arase Vargas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Artemis II crew \u2013 NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen \u2013 smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared brief remarks with the crowd after landing at Ellington Airport near NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, 2026, after a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15741,15975,15976,15977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artemis-2","category-christina-h-koch","category-g-reid-wiseman","category-victor-j-glover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406384,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406383\/revisions\/406384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}