Artemis ReCap - Eat Cookies, Name a Crater and Then Back to Work

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 16, 2026 · 9m

Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly that. A neuroscientist had the livestream running for ten straight days and barely slept and would do it again without hesitation.

What is it like to watch four people crammed into a small capsule for ten days come out the other side still laughing? The recovery teams could not get to them for over an hour because the radio failed at splashdown. They waited. When the hatch opened the reaction was jokes. Before that, somewhere near the…