Watch the moment four astronauts splashed down just off the Florida coast in a return to Earth after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.

After making history on their journey around the moon, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are coming home.

"Twenty-four hours ago, the Earth was that big outside the window and we were doing Mach 39," Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman told the crowd of family, public officials and NASA personnel, holding his hands up to the size of a basketball.

After NASA captivated the world with the Artemis II flight around the moon, the astronauts' journey is coming to an end with their splashdown set for Friday evening. Launched April 1 atop the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B,