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NASA's Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, returning four astronauts from the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years and setting a new human spaceflight distance record of 252,756 miles. The $4.1 billion mission validated the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket for deep space, but the broader Artemis program — now at $93 billion and rising — faces hard questions about cost, political sustainability, and whether humans will actually walk on the Moon again before the end of the decade.