Artemis II astronauts return to Earth after circling the moon, and the Black pilot is now the first Black man to fly around the moon...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
The crew of Artemis II is the first to visit the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Clockwise from left: Koch , Glover , Hansen and Wiseman , with Glover the pilot and the first Black man to circle the moon. Artemis II launches on April 1, 2026, for outer space Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher SAN FRANCISCO, California -The four-member astronaut crew with its Black pilot that took off in the Artemis II rocket-ship on April 1, 2026 as the world watched in amusement, has successfully returned to Earth, landing by parachute on Friday, April 10, at about 8:07 pm off the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, California, and following a 10-day, historic flight around the moon, the first in more than 50 years since the Apollo launch on Dec. 7, 1972. Launched by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 w...