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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Artemis II Mission Highlights, From Blastoff to Splashdown [Watch (HLS stream): Artemis II Mission Highlights, From Blastoff to Splashdown](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/njb1Hv3B.m3u8) (6:55)  _Published 2026-04-14. Every crewed mission to the moon starts with fire and ends with water. Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines pouring flames that generated 8.8 million lb. of thrust. The mission ended Friday night, April 10, at 8:07 p.m. EDT, off the coast of San Diego._ --- Apr 14, 2026 9:53 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch Live: NASA's Artemis II Lunar Mission Launch](/video/oN6gp9Ja/):56 ### Watch Live: NASA's Artemis II Lunar Mission Launch [What to Know About NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission](/video/HGTV2NX0/) ### What to Know About NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission [NASA's Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Triumphant End to Lunar Mission](/video/UIBKMvDy/) ### NASA's Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Triumphant End to Lunar Mission --- ## Transcript Seven Rs 25 engines lit 4321 booster ignition and lift off the crew of Artemis two, now bound for the moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins. Good roll pitch. Roger. Roll pitch. Houston now controlling the flight of integrity on the Artemis two mission around the moon. All right, Amy, welcome on board the integrity spacecraft. It was an amazing ride uphill. The views we've got two moon rises that we've had so far and the views of planet earth, we've circled it completely. And we forgot how beautiful it is to look down on earth. The crew named the Orion spacecraft integrity and revealed that in fall of 2025, They shared that it embodies the foundation of trust, respect, candor and humility across the crew and the many engineers, technicians, scientists, planners and dreamers required for mission, success and integrity. Houston breaking news. We have results on the discussions down here for the tank venting. And at this time you are go for all types of uses of the toilet. And the crew rejoices. Thank you. I heard that there was a little bit of an issue with the toilet. Which one of you was the plumber? I'll take that one. I'm the space plumber. I'm proud to call myself the space plumber. I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board. So we were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine. We see the blizzard cool. I think as we go into Easter Sunday thinking about, you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we got to get through this together. Hello, this is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood. Integrity crew. On April 15th, 1970, during the Apollo 13 mission, three explorers set the record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our home planet. Today, for all humanity, you're pushing beyond that frontier. Integrity. Over to you. Yeah. From the cabin of integrity. Here, as we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever traveled from planet earth, we do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration, we will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear. But we most importantly, choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next, to make sure this record is not long lived. Our science team helped us out with a couple of relatively fresh craters on the moon that have not been previously named, and our crew would like to propose a couple of potential names for those items or those areas. The first one we'd like to suggest is a named crater in honor of our great spacecraft integrity. And the second one, and especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago, we started this journey in our close knit astronaut family. And we lost a loved one. And there's a, there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon. And it's a, it's a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it Carol. And you spell that C a r r o l l. Integrity and Carol crater, loud and clear. Thank you. To all of you down there on earth and around earth. We love you from the moon. You've made history and made all America really proud. Incredibly proud. We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is. There's nothing like what you're doing. And we have three good main shoots. Splashdown. Sending post landing command now. Splashdown. Confirmed. And there you go. We now have all four Artemis two crew members on the USS John P Murtha. Welcome back. Welcome. Welcome home. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Artemis II Mission Highlights, From Blastoff to Splashdown","description":"Every crewed mission to the moon starts with fire and ends with water. Artemis II was no different. 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