Artemis II NASA astronaut Christina Koch reunited with her dog, Sadie, after returning to Earth from a 10-day historic space mission.z
The 47-year-old was part of a four-member crew that went 252,756 miles (406,771 km) away from Earth, deeper into space than anyone had flown before.
A video posted to Koch's Instagram account showed Sadie waiting at the door before Koch entered, dressed in a blue flight suit, and embraced her ecstatic dog.
NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, parachuted gently into calm seas off the Southern California coast shortly after 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time (0007 GMT on Saturday), capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in over half a century.
The Artemis II flight, travelling a total of 694,392 miles (1,117,515 km) in two Earth orbits and a climactic lunar flyby some 4,000 miles from its surface, was the debut crewed test flight in a series of Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface starting in 2028.
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