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Nasa's next giant leap into space exploration took another step today. it is artemis's mission. it ended with a successful splashdown. the capsule touched down in the pacific ocean earlier today after a 25-day journey around the moon and back. this sets the stage for the next mission. >> reporter: a textbook splashdown for the orion spacecraft, capping off a successful artemis 1 mission, the return of american astronauts to the moon for the first time since the apollo program. what's wild about the timing of today is that this splashdown happened on the 50th anniversary of the last time that h...

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Initial assessment right now is appears there has been no damage to that capsule, so i imagine kristin, this is the celebratory phase for the number of people involved in the success of orion and its splashdown here and it also appears one of the helicopters is even closer to the surface there, perhaps that's the phase in which some of the divers are dropped into the water, utilized here, and look closer at the capsule? >> yes, and you know, again, i am on a delay. what -- i mean, nasa is going to be very happy about this. if they're seeing a fully intact

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Test run for future flights with astronauts on board. let's bring in a professor of astro physics at the university of pro-crochester. so good to see you, adam. so how is today's splashdown different, perhaps, than the kind of reentries that we have seen in the past? >> yeah, you know, the interesting thing about artemis is all of these new technologies that we have developed since apollo, so we're coming in with the artemis -- the capsule in a way that apollo never did. we're going to skip off the atmosphere a little bit to burn up some of the velocity. because it's a pretty rough ride for th...