Ankur Desai

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Ankur Desai and in the early hours of Saturday the 11th of April, these are our main stories. The Orion space capsule carrying four astronauts has returned safely, splashing into the Pacific Ocean of Southern California and successfully concluding the Artemis II moon mission. An Iranian delegation has arrived in Pakistan for negotiations with the United States, whose team is also on its way.

History has been made as the four astronauts of the Artemis lunar mission have safely returned to Earth, having made the first manned voyage to the moon and back in over half a century. Their Orion capsule splashed down into the Pacific Ocean after ten days in space. They've broken the record for the furthest humans have ever travelled into space. This was the moment the bullseye splashdown took place on the official NASA feed. Splashdown confirmed.

Copy splashdown, waiting on VLDR. Splashdown confirmed at 7.07 p.m. Central Time, 5.07 p.m. Pacific Time. From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern day mission to the moon, a new chapter of the exploration of our celestial neighbor is complete. Integrities astronauts, back on Earth.

Let's also play you the moment a little earlier when communications were re-established after a very tense six minutes when NASA's mission controllers had no contact with the crew as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Integrity, Houston, comm check post blackout. Houston, Integrity, we have you loud and clear.

The astronauts are said to be in excellent shape and have now been taken by helicopter to a US Navy ship. Just after the splashdown was confirmed, I spoke to our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. History has been made and it has been made to perfection. This mission has so far been flawless.

The tense moment was when the capsule entered the atmosphere. There were question marks about the heat shield, which didn't function properly during the first test flight of an uncrewed mission three years ago. So everyone was a bit worried. Would it work this time with four people on board? And it did.

There were six minutes of silence. It was excruciating. This was the time that if anything was going to go wrong, it would go wrong then. And we were just waiting and waiting to make sure that we heard back from the astronauts. And we did. Reid Wiseman said, Houston, we read you loud and clear. There was a cheer in mission control and there's just been a cheer in the BBC newsroom. That said, the chutes have opened.

Integrity has splashed down. It just looked gorgeous with its red and white parachutes sailing majestically across the Pacific Ocean. There's still work to be done. The rescue vessels are on the way. They need to be extracted from the capsule. These are not trivial matters, but the worst is over.

10 päivää, jotka ovat tehty tarinaa, mutta se ei ole lopputuloksen lopputuloksen. Toivottavasti tämä saa astronautteja ulos uudelle testilaitolle ja lopputulokselle. He sanovat, että vuonna 2028, mutta luulen, että he ovat hieman optimistisia siitä. Pano, olisimme todennäköisiä nähdä enemmän tarinaa tulevien vuosien aikana. Sanoit, että se voisi ottaa pidemmän kuin vuonna 2028. Miksi se on niin?

Well, it's incredibly ambitious. For one thing, the lunar landers have not yet been built. They're supposed to be tested next year by docking in Earth orbit to see if they can dock. The key problem is that these lunar landers are not the lunar landers I remember seeing when I was a boy, which was just basically a small van designed to carry two astronauts down to the moon.

Tämä on giganttinen vehike, joka on suunniteltu infrastruktuuriin, koska tässä vaiheessa NASA suunnittelee pysyä maan ylös, ottaa asioita ylös, rakentaa asioita. Nämä maat tarvitsevat refuelingiä, ja ne tarvitsevat refuelingiä maassa. Se on tarpeeksi vaikeaa refuelingiä maassa. Artemis 2-missi oli lopettanut kaksi kertaa, koska he eivät saaneet refuelingin oikein. Muista, kuinka vaikeaa se on maassa.

So once they've overcome that problem, then they've got to test the lunar lander. So an awful lot to do in just two years. However, one must say that they have achieved a near flawless mission with Artemis 2. So who knows, maybe we will see landing on the moon in 2028.

Palab, it's been an incredible 10 days for the four astronauts involved. Just talk us through what happens for them. I guess there'll be some strict and stringent medical tests as well. And then when are they likely to see their families and friends and loved ones and their colleagues at NASA as well?

They'll feel a bit wobbly on their feet, not because their muscles have gone, they haven't been in space long enough for that, but the balance things in the inner ear has not got used to gravity yet, so they'll be feeling a bit dizzy, but that'll go in a couple of hours. They will...

Be on board the rescue vessel being checked out for any neurological issues, health issues. Once they're past fit, then they'll be able to see their families who must be so relieved and so delighted that they're back safely on earth.

Palab Gosh. Well, that relief and excitement is being felt by people following this all around the world. Our LA correspondent Shama Khalil was at a landing watch party at the Columbia Memorial Space Center and told us about the moment the capsule splashed down safely.

Next, final preparations are being made in Pakistan for historic talks between the US and Iran, which could pave the way for a lasting peace, or if they fail, lead to a return to major conflict in the Middle East. The US delegation is being led by the vice president, J.D. Vance. Before flying to Islamabad, he made the American position clear.

The fact that the two sides will be meeting face to face is significant enough. But big hurdles remain. No sooner had Mr. Vance taken to the skies than Iran demanded preconditions for the talks in Islamabad. And of immediate concern for the global economy is whether Iran will allow more oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. From Islamabad, our Pakistan correspondent Caroline Davies sent this report.