U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed the four astronauts who had just orbited the Moon. At the same time, he took the opportunity to comment on a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
World politicsThe expedition beyond the Moon provided NASA with new research data. For the astronauts themselves, how lonely Earth appears in the darkness of space seems to have left the most lasting impression after the trip. Earth is just a small lifeboat floating peacefully in the universe, said astronaut Christina Koch.
SwedenAfter a historic journey around the Moon, NASA's Artemis astronauts returned to Earth. The Orion spacecraft made a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night.
SwedenThe astronauts aboard Orion have returned to Earth. They have gained useful experience from the expedition for future space travel. "It has been a great journey of inspiration," says Jonas Appelberg, communications officer at the Swedish Space Agency.
SwedenThe astronauts on Artemis II have now been farther from Earth than any human before.
SwedenToday, April 4, is Sweden's "Overshoot Day." This is when the year's ration of renewable resources would have been used up if everyone on Earth had lived as voraciously as Swedes.
SwedenThe four astronauts of Expedition Artemis II are now officially on their way to the Moon. "Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of," said astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft.
SwedenFour astronauts have embarked on a perilous journey around the moon - humanity's first trip to the moon in over half a century. "We truly hope this mission will be the beginning of a new era where everyone, every single person on Earth can look at the moon and consider it a destination," says astronaut Christina Koch.
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