Artemis II, moon
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"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from the moon in over 50 years.
The four astronauts onboard the Orion capsule are scheduled to splash down off the coast of California shortly after 8 p.m. EDT.
The Artemis II astronauts are on their way back to Earth, nearing 209,100 miles away. Track their journey as they prepare for a Pacific Ocean landing.
Orion will slam into Earth's atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, in what NASA expects to be the most demanding part of the Artemis II moon mission.
Astronauts on the Artemis II mission will head around the moon April 6, going farther than humans have ever gone before.
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