The heat shield on Artemis 2's Orion capsule held up well during its scorching downward trip through Earth's atmosphere, mission commander Reid Wiseman said.

The Artemis II crew described in detail what the intense reentry and textbook splashdown were like in an interview with ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir, nearly a week after returning home from their historic 10-day journey to the moon and back.

For her first few mornings after coming back from the moon, NASA astronaut Christina Koch would wake up thinking she was floating. “I had to convince myself I wasn’t,” she said on Thursday at the Artemis 2 crew’s first press conference since their return from microgravity.

After the Apollo 8 crew captured the iconic Earthrise photo in 1968, Artemis astronauts have recreated the image, revealing changes to our fragile blue planet.

A new analysis reveals when Artemis II astronauts were truly farthest from other humans, including those on space stations.

The four astronauts spoke at a news conference Thursday afternoon at Johnson Space Center in Houston about their journey around the moon and back to Earth.

“The sense I had was the sense of fragility and feeling small, infinitesimally small, but yet this very powerful feeling as a human being,” the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen said

The Artemis II astronauts who ignited a lunar renaissance are giving high marks to their moonship for its performance during reentry — especially the heat shield.

Artemis II's Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on his experience aboard Integrity at NASA's press conference, revealing insights into leadership and team success in 2026.