The four-person crew of the Artemis II mission is holding their first news conference since returning to Earth. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will discuss their historic flight around the moon and back.

The Artemis II crew, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a nation in tumult, are set to take questions Thursday for the first time since their return.

"We came in fast, and we came in hot," Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman told reporters in the crew's first press conference since returning to Earth.

The Artemis II crew broke a record by flying 252,756 miles from Earth, the furthest humans have ever traveled. Astronauts completed a seven-hour lunar flyby, seeing a side of the moon never before seen by humans.

The Artemis II astronauts were still readjusting to life back on Earth when they spoke with the media Thursday from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.

Astronauts from NASA 's first crewed Artemis flight largely sidestepped a question about the diversity of the future astronauts assigned to the upcoming moon-landing mission. Speaking at a news conference days after their return to Earth,

The two instructors who trained the Artemis II crew to take out-of-this-world photos during the NASA lunar flyby mission said they were impressed by the photography from the four astronauts. NASA photography and video subject matter experts Paul Reichert and Katrina Willoughby spoke to Reuters on Tuesday (April 14) about the crew's photography training.