Artemis II splashdown
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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. Also in this podcast, a 13-year-old girl who was filming on Snapchat as bombs fell in Beirut.
And Hungarians are going to the polls in a crucial parliamentary election.
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 10 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. Integrity's 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's been made and it's 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. We heard... 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. This has been... 10 days that have made history. But it's not the end of the story. Hopefully, this will set astronauts up for another test flight and eventually landing on the moon, they say, by 2028.
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