'Welcome home, Artemis': Crew celebrates historic 10-day moon mission
After their historic lunar flyby, the crew safely splashed down in the Pacific.
NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The four-person crew completed a 695,081-mile, 10-day journey around the moon, also known as a lunar fly-by.
A "textbook" splashdown took place at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday, April 10.
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Artemis II crew awakes to 'In a Daydream'
The Artemis II astronauts woke up around 1:00 p.m. ET on day 3 of their mission to the moon.
"Whenever you want to do some wake-up music, we can do some post-wake-up music," mission commander Reid Wiseman told Mission Control.
NASA's Mission Control in Houston played "In a Daydream" by the Freddy Jones Band.
Day 3 will include demonstrating CPR procedures in space and checking out some of Orion's medical kit, including the thermometer, blood pressure monitor, stethoscope and otoscope, according to NASA.
The crew will also begin to configure the cabin for its upcoming lunar flyby so it has the most ideal setup for capturing images and data of the far side of the moon.
Additionally, the Artemis II astronauts will be doing a Deep Space Network emergency communications test make sure the system works.
-ABC News' Matthew Glasser and Mary Kekatos
Out of this world photos from Orion capsule revealed
NASA released the first batch of high quality photos of Earth taken from the Orion capsule.
The images show the crew’s view as they look back at the pale blue dot we call home, while continuing their journey toward the moon.
According to NASA, the images were taken on Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman's "personal computing device, PC or tablet."
-ABC News' Briana Alvarado
View of Earth in day and night from Artemis II Orion spacecraft
During Friday morning's video feed from the Orion spacecraft, NASA captured an image of Earth partly in daytime and partly at night.
The Earth is the object on the right that appears crescent-shaped. Orion is about 77,000 miles from Earth here.
-ABC News' Matthew Glasser
Crew will experience an eclipse on Day 6 of mission
The Artemis II crew will get the chance to see a solar eclipse on the sixth day of the 10-day mission.
The sun's corona will be visible, NASA officials said during a press conference Thursday night.