The mission’s crew members have described it as the “greatest dream on Earth”, as reported by the ABC and the US-based Associated Press. After landing in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, the crew underwent medical evaluation. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canada’s mission specialist Jeremy Hansen have now become the first humans to travel towards the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. That was the 11th and final crewed mission as part of NASA’s famous Apollo program.

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