2026年4月11日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:08 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
四名阿尔忒弥斯II号宇航员刚刚完成历史性的绕月之旅，于周六乘坐专机返回美国国家航空航天局（NASA）位于休斯顿的约翰逊航天中心，迎接他们的是前来欢迎他们回家的家人以及数百名航天中心工作人员的欢呼与掌声。
阿尔忒弥斯II号指令长里德·怀斯曼、维克多·格洛弗、克里斯蒂娜·科赫以及加拿大宇航员杰里米·汉森于周五晚间在圣迭戈西南部的太平洋海域溅落，圆满结束了为期9天的任务。这是自半个世纪前阿波罗计划结束以来，首次有人驾驶航天器往返月球。
阿尔忒弥斯II号宇航员在休斯顿约翰逊航天中心附近的机库中与前来迎接的祝福者见面。从左至右：加拿大宇航员杰里米·汉森、克里斯蒂娜·科赫、维克多·格洛弗和指令长里德·怀斯曼。迈尔斯·多兰/哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
在接受医疗检查并与家人朋友通完电话后，四人登上NASA专机，飞往距离航天中心数英里的埃灵顿机场。喧闹的人群早已在附近的机库等候，其中包括宇航员的家属们。
“在短暂中断53年后，演出继续上演，NASA再次回归将宇航员送往月球并安全带回的事业，”NASA局长贾里德·艾萨克曼在欢呼的人群中说道。
他转向宇航员们补充道：“感谢你们再次为我们展示月球。感谢你们再次为我们展示地球。也感谢你们为人类历史上最伟大的冒险作出贡献。欢迎回家，阿尔忒弥斯II号机组。”
怀斯曼站起身，与机组同伴开玩笑后说道：“我完全不知道该说什么。24小时前，地球还在窗外，我们正以39倍音速飞行，而现在我们已经回到了埃灵顿的家。”
他动情地说道：“在发射前，这感觉像是地球上最伟大的梦想。而当你身处太空时，你只想回到家人和朋友身边。作为人类是一件特别的事，作为地球居民更是一件特别的事。”
格洛弗是一名虔诚的信徒，他随身携带了一本圣经登上月球。他表示任务开始时他曾公开感谢上帝。
“今天我还要再次感谢上帝，”他在周六说道，“因为比起尝试描述我们所经历的一切，看到我们所见的景象、完成我们所做的事情、与我的队友们并肩作战，这份感激之情太过厚重，绝非一己之力所能承载。”
科赫同样对这次经历感触颇深。当从25万英里之外的月球视角看到悬浮在深邃黑暗太空中的地球时，她深受触动。
“当我们看到渺小的地球时，有人问我们机组有什么印象，”她对人群说道，“老实说，最打动我的不一定只是地球本身，而是它周围的整片黑暗。地球就像一艘在宇宙中不受打扰的救生艇。”
“我知道我还没有完全领悟这次旅程教会我的一切。但我现在明白了一件新的事，那就是地球，你们是一个整体。”
阿尔忒弥斯II号宇航员在周五从太平洋溅落并被海军两栖船坞运输舰运回岸边后，在他们的猎户座乘员舱前合影。从左至右：指令长里德·怀斯曼、克里斯蒂娜·科赫、加拿大宇航员杰里米·汉森和飞行员维克多·格洛弗。NASA/比尔·英格尔斯
宇航员们乘坐名为“诚信号”的猎户座乘员舱，于4月1日搭乘太空发射系统火箭从肯尼迪航天中心发射升空。他们是首批乘坐全球最强大的现役运载火箭进入太空的宇航员，也是首批乘坐猎户座航天器的宇航员。
他们在地球轨道上度过了一整天，测试了猎户座航天器的生命维持系统和其他系统，随后点燃乘员舱的服务模块发动机，脱离地球轨道，开启了为期四天的月球飞行之旅。
这是自1972年最后一次阿波罗登月任务以来，NASA首次进行载人登月飞行，也是NASA规划的一系列飞行任务的首次，目标是在月球南极附近建立基地。
阿尔忒弥斯II号任务的目标相对较为温和，只是以自由返回轨道绕月飞行后返回地球，这让怀斯曼和他的机组同伴们获得了前所未有的观测机会，可以在太阳照射下观察到近四分之一的月球背面。
他们还有幸目睹了一场壮观的日食：从宇航员的视角看，月球运行到太阳前方，在变暗的月球周围形成了一层幽灵般的光晕，这一空灵的景象让机组人员惊叹不已。
“这依旧像一场梦，”格洛弗向休斯顿的人群说道，“太阳躲到了月球后面，日冕依然清晰可见，明亮地环绕着整个月球……地球在太空中格外明亮，月球就悬在我们前方，像一个黑色的球体。我们能看到它后方的星星和行星。”
猎户座航天器于上周一早些时候进入月球引力影响范围，约14小时后绕月球暗面飞行，在近距离接近时距离月球表面约4000英里。
片刻之后，他们创下了人类距离地球最远飞行距离的新纪录——252756英里，比1970年厄运连连的阿波罗13号任务机组在紧急返回地球期间创下的纪录远了约4100英里。
宇航员们在历史性的绕月飞行期间拍摄了数千张照片，录制了视频和个人观测记录，以便研究人员借助人眼的色彩敏感度获取研究数据。
“你们的任务为美国尽快重返月球表面铺平了道路，”特朗普总统通过无线电向宇航员们说道，“我们将全力以赴。我们将再次插上国旗，这一次我们不会只留下脚印。我们将在月球建立永久驻地，并继续向火星进发。那将非常令人兴奋。”
搭载指令长里德·怀斯曼、维克多·格洛弗、克里斯蒂娜·科赫和加拿大宇航员杰里米·汉森的阿尔忒弥斯II号猎户座航天器以超过24000英里的时速进入大气层13分钟后，精准降落在太平洋海域。NASA/比尔·英格尔斯
在发射前，科学团队确认了几个相对较新的、此前未被命名的陨石坑。机组为其中一个提议了他们航天器的名字。
“第二个陨石坑，对我们机组来说意义尤其重大，几年前，我们……失去了一位挚爱，”汉森说道，“月球上有一处位置极佳的地貌，位于近侧和远侧的边界……在月球绕地球运行的某些时段，我们可以看到这里。我们失去的挚爱名叫卡罗尔，她是里德的妻子，凯蒂和埃莉的母亲……这是月球上的一处亮斑。我们想将它命名为‘卡罗尔’。”
“‘诚信号’和‘卡罗尔陨石坑’，”加拿大宇航员珍妮·吉本斯从任务控制中心回应道，“信号清晰，谢谢。”
在周六的欢迎回家仪式上，汉森最后发言。他表示，这次任务让他明白，一支成功的团队有三个基本要素。第一是对获得这次机会以及数千名促成此次飞行的支持者的感激之情。第二是分享这次经历带来的喜悦。
随后他将怀斯曼、格洛弗和科赫叫到身边，三人紧紧相拥，他补充道：“最后一点是爱。”
“你们看到的是一群乐于奉献并从中汲取快乐的人，”汉森说道，“我们听说这对你们来说也是特别的一幕。我让他们和我站在一起，是因为我想告诉你们，当你们看向我们时，你们看到的不只是我们。我们是一面镜子，映照出你们的身影。如果你们喜欢看到的景象，不妨再深入看看。这就是你们。”
Artemis II astronauts welcomed home to Houston after historic moonshot
April 11, 2026 / 8:08 PM EDT / CBS News
The four Artemis II astronauts, freshly back from a historic trip around the moon, flew back to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday to cheers and applause from family members and hundreds of space center workers who gathered to welcome them home.
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Diego Friday evening to close out a nine-day mission, the first piloted flight to the moon and back since the end of the Apollo program a half century ago.
The Artemis II astronauts greeting well wishers gathered in a hangar near the Johnson Space Center in Houston to welcome the crew home. Left to right: Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and commander Reid Wiseman. Miles Doran/CBS News
After medical checks and phone calls home to family and friends, all four boarded a NASA jet and flew back to Ellington Field a few miles from the space center. A raucous crowd awaited them in a nearby hangar, including the crew’s families.
“After a brief 53-year intermission, the show goes on, and NASA is back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon and bringing them home safely,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told the cheering crowd.
Turning to the astronauts, he said, “Thank you for showing us the moon again. Thank you for showing us planet Earth again, and thank you for contributing to the greatest adventure in human history. Welcome home, Artemis II.”
Wiseman stood up and after joking with his crewmates, said “I have absolutely no idea what to say. Twenty-four hours ago, the Earth was…out the window and we were doing mach 39 (times the speed of sound), and here we are back at Ellington at home.”
Speaking with clear emotion, he said “before you launch, it feels like it’s the greatest dream on Earth. And when you’re out there, you just want to get back to your families and your friends. It’s a special thing to be a human, and it’s a special thing to be on planet Earth.”
Glover, a deeply spiritual man who carried a Bible with him to the moon, said that when the mission started he wanted thank God in public.
“And I want to thank God again,” he said Saturday. “Because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did and being with who I was with, it’s too big to just be in one body.”
Koch was equally moved by the experience of seeing Earth, suspended in the deep black of space, from the vantage point of the moon a quarter of a million miles away.
“When we saw tiny Earth, people asked our crew what impressions we had,” she told the crowd. “And honestly, what struck me wasn’t necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe.
“I know I haven’t learned everything that this journey has yet to teach me. But there’s one new thing I know, and that is planet Earth, you are a crew.”
The Artemis II astronauts pose in front of their Orion crew capsule after it was recovered from a Pacific Ocean splashdown Friday and hauled into a Navy amphibious dock ship for the trip back to shore. Left to right: commander Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and pilot Victor Glover. NASA/Bill Ingalls
Strapped into an Orion crew capsule they named “Integrity,” the astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1 atop a Space Launch System rocket. They were the first to ride into space aboard the world’s most powerful operational rocket, and the first to fly in an Orion capsule.
After spending a full day in Earth orbit checking out the Orion spacecraft’s life support and other systems, they fired the capsule’s service module engine to break away from Earth for a four-day flight to the moon.
It was NASA’s first piloted moonshot since the final Apollo moon landing mission in 1972, and the first of what NASA envisions as a steady stream of flights while building a base near the lunar south pole.
The Artemis II mission had more modest goals, simply swinging around the moon on a free-return trajectory back to Earth, giving Wiseman and his crewmates an unprecedented opportunity to observe nearly a quarter of the moon’s far side while it was illuminated by the sun.
They also were able to enjoy a spectacular solar eclipse when the moon moved in front of the sun from the crew’s perspective, creating a ghostly glow around the darkened moon, an ethereal sight that left the crew awestruck.
“This continues to be unreal,” Glover told Houston. “The sun has gone behind the moon, and the corona is still visible, and it’s bright, and it creates a halo almost around the entire moon…The Earth is so bright out there and the moon is just hanging in front of us, this black orb out in front of us. We can see stars and the planets behind it.”
The Orion capsule entered the moon’s gravitational sphere of influence early last Monday and flew around the dark side of the moon about 14 hours later, passing within about 4,000 miles of the lunar surface at close approach.
Moments later, they set a new record for the maximum distance anyone has ever flown from planet Earth — 252,756 miles — about 4,100 miles farther than a record set in 1970 by the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission during their emergency return to Earth.
The astronauts snapped thousands of photos during their historic pass around the moon, shot video and recorded their personal observations to give researchers insights based on the color sensitivity of the human eye.
“Your mission paves the way for America’s return to the lunar surface very soon,” President Trump radioed the astronauts. “We’re going all out. We’ll plant our flag once again, and this time we won’t just leave footprints. We’ll establish a permanent presence on the moon, and we’ll push on to Mars. That’ll be very exciting.”
The Artemis II Orion capsule carrying commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen descends toward an on-target splashdown 13 minutes after entering the atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph. NASA/Bill Ingalls
Before launch, the science team helped identify a few relatively fresh craters that had not been previously named. The crew proposed the name of their spacecraft for one.
“And the second one, especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago, we…lost a loved one,” Hansen said. “And there’s a feature in a really neat place on the moon. And it is on the near-side/far-side boundary…And some times of the moon’s transit around Earth we will be able to see this. So we lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie…It’s a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it Carroll.”
“Integrity and Carroll Crater,” Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons replied from mission control. “Loud and clear. Thank you.”
At the welcome home ceremony Saturday, Hansen spoke last, saying the mission showed him a successful crew had three essential ingredients. The first is gratitude for the opportunity and the support of thousands who made the flight possible. The second was sharing the joy of the experience.
Then he called Wiseman, Glover and Koch to him for a group hug, adding, “The last one is love.”
“What you saw was a group of people who loved contributing and extracting joy out of that,” Hansen said. “And what we’ve been hearing is that was something special for you to witness. And the reason I had them form up here with me is because I would suggest to you that when you look up here, you’re not looking at us. We are a mirror reflecting you. And if you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you.”