Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman on Thursday shared a glimpse into the moment after he and his fellow astronauts returned from their historic mission circling the moon.
Once the four crew members splashed down off the coast of San Diego on April 10, they were taken to a U.S. Navy ship for medical evaluation, and that was the moment Wiseman said he asked to visit with the ship’s chaplain, the National Catholic Register reported on Friday.
Wiseman said, “I’m not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything, so I just asked for the Navy chaplain to come visit us for a minute.”
“When that man walked in — I’d never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears. It’s very hard to
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