Jonathan Seri
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It was near perfect from launch to splashdown.
In fact, when they committed to that translunar injection, that major burn that moved them out of a relatively low Earth orbit on a course to the moon, it was so accurate they were able to
skip some of the corrective burns on the way to the moon just some of the maneuvering operations they had planned and it was only as they were approaching earth that they needed to pick a landing site a splashdown site and make those last burns to adjust the course
I found myself noticing not only the beauty of the Earth...
but how much blackness there was around it and how it just made it even more special.
Homeward bound, the Artemis II astronauts continue to send back dramatic photos of their lunar flyby during a ship-to-ship call with the International Space Station.
Mission specialist Christina Cook described how the Earth looks from her much more distant vantage point.
Artemis II is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego Friday night.
At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Jonathan Seri, Fox News.
Homeward bound, the Artemis II astronauts continue to send back dramatic photos of their lunar flyby during a ship-to-ship call with the International Space Station.
Mission specialist Christina Cook described how the Earth looks from her much more distant vantage point.
Artemis II is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
That's Jonathan Seri.
It includes two American astronauts, one European Space Agency astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut.
Earlier this weekend, they arrived at Kennedy Space Center, where they remain under a precautionary quarantine as they prepare for launch early Wednesday.
When they arrive at the ISS, Crew 12 will be greeted by two Russians and NASA astronaut Chris Williams, who's been maintaining the U.S.
equipment on the space station by himself since mid-January.
Crew 12 will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The FAA has given Falcon 9 clearance to launch, and they are targeting a liftoff on Wednesday.