The Artemis II mission has successfully concluded with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, marking the end of a groundbreaking 10-day journey around the Moon.

The Orion capsule carried Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch of NASA, along with Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.

The spacecraft safely descended under parachutes, dramatically slowing from more than 30 times the speed of sound to a controlled splashdown in the ocean.

“What an adventure! We’re stable. Four crew members in good shape,” commander Wiseman reported after reestablishing communication with mission control.

Artemis II has already secured its place in history, as the crew traveled farther from Earth than any humans before, surpassing the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

The successful return is a major milestone for NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon and lay the groundwork for future missions to Mars.

As recovery operations proceed in the Pacific, celebrations erupted at Johnson Space Center in Houston when communication with the crew was confirmed following reentry.