Artemis II crew to hold news conference after historic moon flyby

(NEXSTAR) – The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is scheduled to appear at a news conference Thursday to answer questions about their record-breaking trip around the moon.

The conference is slated to begin at 2:30 ET, according to NASA. Viewers can watch live in the video player above.

The crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, together with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — returned from their historic mission on April 10. They appeared together the following day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to share brief remarks with a crowd of NASA officials, family members and politicians.

“We are bonded forever,” Wiseman, the commander of the mission, said of his relationship with the crew. “No one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through, and it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life.”

Wiseman, however, acknowledged that the crew was anxious to get back to their families

“It’s a special thing to be a human, and it’s a special thing to be on planet Earth,” Wiseman said.”

NASA’s Artemis II mission officially launched on April 1 following a series of technical setbacks. Then crew them completed a nine-day trip around the moon, during which they broke the record for the farthest that any humans have ever traveled from Earth. (They traveled 252,756 miles, surpassing the previous record of 248,655 miles set by the crew of Apollo 13). The Artemis II crew also captured never-before-seen images from the far side of the moon.

NASA is next planning to send future Artemis missions on “increasingly challenging missions” to explore the moon and to “lay the groundwork for sending the first astronauts – American astronauts – to Mars,” the agency says.

“To people all around the world who look up and dream about what is possible, the long wait is over,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during the April 11 homecoming celebration.

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