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NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down on April 10, 2026, after a 10-day, 695,000-mile lunar flyby that set a new distance record for human spaceflight and produced the first deep-space biomedical data since Apollo. But the mission's emotional crew reflections and technical successes exist alongside fierce debates over the program's $4.1 billion per-launch cost, a tightening race with China's 2030 crewed-landing target, and polling that shows tepid public enthusiasm for crewed lunar exploration relative to other science priorities.