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News & Current Events Apr 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM

Artemis II's grand moon finale is almost here with a Pacific splashdown to cap NASA's lunar comeback

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Artemis II’s record-breaking journey around the moon ends with dramatic splashdown
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Artemis II’s record-breaking journey around the moon ends with dramatic splashdown
The first astronauts to visit the moon in more than a half-century are home. Artemis II’s crew of four emerged from their lunar capsule after a splashdown in the Pacific on Friday evening and were flown by helicopter to the Navy’s recovery ship.
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Neobullseye1 Apr 10, 2026 +56
Uh... What the heck is this nonsense, a news article or a poorly written sci-fi action movie review? Why is it written in past tense when it's not over yet? What is with all the overly hyped language choice? Not to mention all the pointless fluff that really is not relevant whatsoever to the core of the article.
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messem10 Apr 10, 2026 +16
Odds are they put the article out early. Most news have articles prewritten for potential events where there are only a small amount of outcomes. (Celebrity obituaries is one case that comes to mind as death comes to us all.) In this instance, they either make it or they don’t but either outcome *will* happen.
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jackleggjr Apr 10, 2026 +11
Gerald Ford dead today, eaten by wolves
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someguy7710 Apr 10, 2026 +3
I get this reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8 for those that don't
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gnanny02 Apr 10, 2026 +3
And no time of splashdown for those of us still operating before the fact.
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Mercutio999 Apr 10, 2026 +54
Wow, AI screwed the pooch there. It’s written in the past tense. Anthropics Time Machine is now live
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pudding7 Apr 10, 2026 +4
Yeah I was very confused by that.
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AnglerJared Apr 10, 2026 +88
Safe return, and thanks for making this last couple of weeks a bit brighter, news-wise.
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JRockPSU Apr 10, 2026 +8
The launch made me cry… my therapist suggested that despite obviously being aware of all the negative news surrounding us all day all the time, we may not actually realize just how much stress from it were holding inside ourselves, and when this truly wonderful, positive, hopeful massive event happens, it’s like a sudden release, like an exhale. It was very much needed.
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IrishRage42 Apr 10, 2026 +8
I cried too. Like that is what humanity should be, not all the bullshit we're bombarded with daily.
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Faulty_Plan Apr 10, 2026 +3
Godsplash, my space peeps
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HighwayFragrant4772 Apr 10, 2026 +14
See when the Artemis II splashdown is set to be in your timezone with a countdown aswell over here: https://www.calc-verse.com/en/artemis-2-splashdown
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joegetto Apr 10, 2026 +8
Why is this article written like it already happened?
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MOONGOONER Apr 10, 2026 +3
I clicked hoping to find out when. Nope.
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GrunwaldTheFox Apr 10, 2026 +5
8:05 pm eastern time tonight
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rpickens6661 Apr 10, 2026
Unless weather.
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Vevaseti Apr 10, 2026 +1
There's no delaying the landing of a mission like this, they're coming in one way or another. Apparently they can still do enough adjustments to to pick the landing site by a massive range up to 48 hours out (to give the ships enough time to reach it), but at this point they're locked in.
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PigFarmer1 Apr 10, 2026 -1
Not trying to be rude but it's just laughable that it's coming down in the Pacific so we get the landing time for EDT. If it was coming down here in the Rocky Mountains no one would be able to even determine the time for our nonexistent MDT... lol
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BlueCyann Apr 11, 2026 +2
... ... The announcement literally listed pacific time first. You're basing your entire paragraph's worth of outrage on the fact that a random internet person gave the time zone that means the most to them.
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buzzbros2002 Apr 10, 2026 +1
I did the same. Like, it's one of the five big W's, When?? Thankfully that was said in the comments here, but I'd have expected that in the article itself, especially when the headline talks about it almost being here.
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Longshot02496 Apr 10, 2026 +6
"NASA's lunar comeback" Didn't they get their already measly budget cut by like 80% just a few days ago for daring to steal the limelight away from King Lord Dorito?
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NeilZod Apr 10, 2026 +2
Trump proposes a significant budget reduction, but that budget isn’t set yet
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Longshot02496 Apr 10, 2026 +6
Nobody in the government has spine enough to say no to the clown in chief. Don't hold your breath.
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Inevitable_Prune3343 Apr 10, 2026 -4
Your making up a lot of things in this comment
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 11, 2026 +1
So this is definitely when we find out the moon is haunted, right?
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forresto Apr 12, 2026 +1
I wonder how many times they were brought to tears on this mission? I get teary just imagining what they experienced.
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jkggwp Apr 10, 2026 +1
I really wanted them to take a photo of the site of the previous moon landing. You’d think this would be possible with today’s camera sensors
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iamdan1 Apr 10, 2026 +6
All of the moon landings were on the side of the Moon facing Earth, and this mission went around the back side of the Moon. So they didn't see any of the previous moon landing sites.
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BlueCyann Apr 11, 2026 +1
Honestly I'm not sure that it would have been possible even if they did go around the moon the other way. The closest they got was 4K miles. That might be too far. Even the photos we have from pretty low orbit are not exactly sharp, and that's with dedicated science focused equipment, not just handheld cameras. I can't imagine you'd get more than a pixel or two with a Nikon from 4K miles, and probably not even that. Anyway, look up the Chandrayaan photos or the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter ones (I think that's the name?) if you want to scratch that itch.
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7657786425658907653 Apr 10, 2026 -21
was i the only person who thought they were actually GOING to the moon? when I say i'm going home i don't just do a lap of my road.
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Stiklikegiant Apr 10, 2026 +11
Just sight seeing this time. But the crew is doing very important work to facilitate upcoming lunar landing missions.
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Adequate_Lizard Apr 10, 2026 +6
No. Lots of other people also have no media comprehension.
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Roentgen_Ray1895 Apr 10, 2026 +6
Artemis 2 was Apollo 10, we got everything to the moon and made sure all these systems we designed can get people there and back safely, the next big step with Artemis 3 will be all the brand new terrifying possibilities of malfunction that the lander will bring to the table And I mean it wasn’t the flashy walk on the moon, but no human had journeyed this far from Earth in over half a century. If we’re getting real technical with it, it’s the furthest humans have ever reached into the cosmos.
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BlueCyann Apr 11, 2026 +1
There's no direct comparison. Artemis 2 was less than either Apollo 8 or 10, but it was way more than Apollos 7 or 9. The program is skipping a lot of steps, with the next trip out there intended to be a full landing.
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susulaima Apr 10, 2026 -4
It only went 6000 km further from 400,000 km (around 1.5% more than Apollo 13). Not really that significant to even point out. Though what's significant is this time they'll make it back in one piece without any complications, hopefully, and it's not a rescue mission.
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renome Apr 10, 2026 +7
Artemis 4 will be the actual moon landing. But yeah, you're not the only one.
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Effective_Tour_4822 Apr 10, 2026 +7
There are plenty of dumbshits out there, don't feel alone
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