Overview
- The four astronauts will take questions Thursday at 2:30 p.m. ET at Johnson Space Center, with NASA streaming the news conference live.
- The crew returned Friday, April 10, with a Pacific splashdown near San Diego after a 10-day loop around the Moon, then began medical checks, debriefs and reconditioning in Houston.
- NASA says the mission met its key goals by testing Orion’s life-support, practicing manual piloting, executing course changes, completing a far-side flyby and achieving a safe reentry and recovery.
- The flight set a new human-distance mark at 406,771 kilometers from Earth and made Canadian Jeremy Hansen the first non‑American to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
- The team gathered health data with wearable sensors and proposed names for two newly seen far-side craters, and NASA says these results will guide landing-site planning and an added test mission before a south‑pole landing targeted for 2028.