The Orion spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on the night of April 11, concluding NASA's “Artemis 2” mission. The landing site was near San Diego, California, reports dw.com.

On board the spacecraft were NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. “Orion” launched from the East Coast of the United States on April 1. Five days later, the crew completed their lunar observations and set course for Earth.

The mission set a record for the furthest distance humans have traveled from Earth: at its peak, the spacecraft was 407,000 km from the planet. The previous record belonged to the “Apollo 13” crew, who set it in 1970.

More than three million viewers watched the landing live on NASA's YouTube channel, and the broadcast was also shared on other agency platforms.

During the mission, the participants tested new spacesuits with an independent oxygen supply for up to six days.