Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century.

The world found inspiration and wonder in new images of the moon from Artemis II. The crew is set to splash down on Friday. Senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann reports from the Johnson Space Center.

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. ET Friday, concluding a roughly 10-day journey that took humans farther from Earth than ever before.

NASA and the world are watching as the Artemis II astronauts are approaching one of the riskiest parts of their 10-day round-trip mission to the moon. They are set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. NBC News' Tom Costello has the latest.

The most important elements of the groundbreaking mission worked perfectly, but there have still been a few snafus along the way that the crew has had to deal with.

All four astronauts who participated in NASA's ten-day Artemis II mission to fly around the moon, taking them farther into space than any humans had ever been before, have returned safely to earth, splashing down within a mile of their intended landing target in the Pacific Ocean,

Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes,

Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human