Schedule. Times are central time as friend works at NASA Houston.
Almost time
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And the modules separated successfully!
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No sonic boom that we could hear. Now we’re waiting for the capsule to float away like the house in Up. We’re used to navy divers et al arriving much sooner in the old days.
I guess with no working phones , no Uber pickup?
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Childhood memories came rushing back.
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Those 6 minutes were really long and really short.
Anyone know how the photos of them re-entering are taken? Satellite? Drones? Military planes? The video was so clear!
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Back in the day, the goal was to get the astronauts out of their capsule in under an hour. Guess they having trouble getting the gate to the door - just like our arrival at LAX last month.
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We have decided to drink everytime someone says “Front Porch”
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I need to see these astronauts get off that janky raft and on ground! For gosh sakes they just flew to the moon and it looks like they are hanging out on one of those rafts you can buy at Costco for $99!!! 
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You must have passed out by now!
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You’d think after 53 years they would have a better way of getting the astronauts from the capsule to the ship. Especially a ship that had an open back designed for boats to come and go. Instead we have the poor astronauts dangling from a cable. It may be dramatic, but doesn’t make sense to me in 2026.
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For any science nerds out there, I received an email from Duke today about their upcoming free Coursera course called Space Medicine.
Partial text from the email:
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After watching the Challenger space shuttle blow up on TV in the middle of my 8th grade social studies class, I can’t bring myself to watch NASA launches. But today’s splash down back on earth made my eyes sweaty with respect. Really exciting. I never thought I’d see a mission to the moon in my life time and next year, mankind will be landing on the moon again.
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I would be much more excited if they weren’t planning on mining the moon once there, with a nuclear power grid for life support. But even so, an extremely impressive achievement.
I watched the whole reentry and splash down, and the astronauts exiting the capsule. I did not stay up to see the helicopter rescue part.
I loved the applause (I think from Mission Control) when they exited the capsule.
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We did run down to Shelter Island this morning to watch the USS John P. Murtha return with the capsule. Apparently the astronauts flew to Houston early this morning. I used a variety of online spotting to figure out that the ship would be arriving soon and off we went. I will now download all the pictures from my good camera - brought the zoom - but it was a picture perfect arrival.
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My friend was there and her post of the celebration was pure joy. It was like she was 10 years old again. She’s worked for NASA for about 40 years (mostly on space station stuff) and when asked to work on this launch/return she was thrilled to do it. I think her job was to watch warning lights! and clear any problems detected.
I, too, watched it for about 2 hours straight. Felt just like 1969 - except more color pictures.
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FYiI - Peacock already has a documentary about Artemis II! Watching it. So exciting!