Returning a spacecraft back to Earth is one of the most delicate and tense operations of the entire mission

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have just returned from a 10-day mission

The splashdown took place in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego at 8.07pm EDT

Reid Wiseman, who served as a flight engineer at the International Space Station in 2014, shared an iconic quote about his fear

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen departed for space on April 1 on board the Orion craft

The crew, consisting of NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will return on Friday

The astronauts of the Artemis II mission to the moon will splashdown later today, but their history-making journey does not end there

It's the first astronaut mission to the Moon since 1972.

The NASA crew will return to Earth on April 10

The Artemis II mission is set to conclude this Friday

One of the astronauts is on a different pay scale

As Orion passed behind the Moon, contact with Earth was lost.

The conversation came just after the crew had broken records by travelling the farthest from Earth.

The popular chocolate spread made history during the Artemis II mission.

Artemis II is going to the Moon for the first time since the 1970s

The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have traveled to the Moon since 1972

The team are over halfway through their journey

The impressive photo of Earth was released by NASA on Friday

Although the mission seems to be going according to plan at present, the team have had some issues with the toilet system

Artemis II astronauts are flying further than their predecessors 60 years ago

It may be possible to live on the Moon one day...

The milestone space mission had its share of mishaps

The crew aboard Artemis II faced toilet difficulties just hours into the mission

Artemis II successfully launched on Wednesday