Since NASA's Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations collected on the test flight.

The devil wears Prada. And soon, so will the astronauts heading to the moon.

A lot of practice led up to this week’s event, and seeing everything come together at sea gives me great confidence that the air, water, ground, and medical support teams are ready to safely recover the spacecraft and the crew for this historic mission.

This April, humanity had front-row seats to space as the Artemis II Orion spacecraft transmitted crystal-clear footage of its historic journey around the moon from more than 250,000 miles (about 402,000 kilometers) back to Earth at speeds on par with home internet connections.

There is no quick way home What does it take to launch people beyond Earth orbit the first time since 1972? Artemis II should provide the answer to that question using hardware and processes that have never been demonstrated with a crew on board: NASA Space Launch System (SLS),