All three main parachutes of the crew module have now deployed.

That 3rd one got me worried for a sec 😫😫😂

When the Tunnocks tea cakes deploy, you know all is well 💪

Orion has slowed from 130 mph to a gentle 17-20 mph. This is the safe terminal velocity for a water impact

Red-and-white striped beauties doing exactly what they were designed for. This parachute sequence is deceptively complex (drogues, pilots, then these giants reefing in stages). Smooth deployment = smooth splashdown off San Diego. Go NASA!

WOOOOO-HOOOO!! SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED!!🫡👍

Fast forward to the splash

Let's gooooooo

Well done @Tunnocks

What a moment to be alive and witnessing! Congratulations USA!

Three parachutes out — Artemis II splashdown imminent. Perfect end to a historic mission.

Nice to see them safely back to earth 🌍 🫡

How do flat Earthers try and explain this? Does a plane fly up to the firmament and drop it?

oh

Science is beautiful

Fuck yeah man

How did we go from capsule to space shuttle back to capsule?

A Day at the Sea

Welcome home crew.

Thats all good and congratulations NAsa 🎊

Back to the future 🌒

Impecable

O cool! They entered safely? 😍

Incredible

Three-parachute redundancy traces back to Apollo—Apollo 15 (1971) survived a main chute failure at ~40,000 ft and still splashed down safely. Today's Orion system carries that same lesson: design for two failures, not one. The 60-year arc of crew recovery engineering holds. 🪂

Amazing how short is the transit from low density air to dense enough to inflate the parachutes.

Interesting how much it looks like 1960s method.

Out here in Benoit we were all happy when the tired chute billowed.

the U.S. are still strong in some things

With all three chutes out, successful was the least surprising part

Bullseye. Bullseye. Bullseye .🇺🇸

Almost there...

Looks just like Apollo

COOL AF