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The astronauts are asked if their mission to space has shifted their consciousness or their perspective on the world.

"It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through," Reid Wiseman answers. He says he's not a religious person, but after he splashed back down to Earth, he asked for the chaplain on the navy ship.

"And when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his on his collar, and I just I broke down in tears," he says.

He says that during the mission, when the Sun eclipsed behind the Moon, he turned to Victor Glover and said, "I don't think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we're looking at right now".

Glover adds that he feels the same as Wiseman, except for the fact that he is a religious person.

The astronauts are asked about the most remarkable experiences of their journey - those that couldn't captured through photos and videos.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who unlike the others was on his first space flight, took the question.

He says they had many amazing experiences, but what kept grabbing his attention was the "depth of the galaxy" that he hadn't experienced before.

Stars "looked like you could tell where they are in 3D," he says.

Seeing the Moon and Earth from that perspective made him feel "small and powerless, yet powerful together," he says.

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The Artemis II mission touched millions of people on Earth, many of whom tuned in to watch the mission's launch and splashdown.

A reporter tells a story about his four-year-old daughter, who he says was entranced by the videos and photos of the mission, and asks if the astronauts are coming to grips with the scope of what they did.

Artemis II pilot Victor Glover says he has been trying to "live in a little hole" for the week since splashdown, but it is "hard" now.

"We did what we said we were going to do and now we've got to step out and just face that reality," he says.

Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen reflects on the moment the flight lost connection with ground crew as it hurtled back toward Earth.

"We didn't have that connection with you, we lost that connection with earth," he says. "We just leaned into what we had, we leaned into each other and mission control which was really all we had and our families a couple times."

Mission Specialist Christina Koch says she doesn't like attention, but her husband had a conversation with her brothers and sisters about "who's going to tell her" about the impact of the mission.

The first question goes to Wiseman, who is asked about Integrity, the name of the spacecraft, and the spirit of the mission.

He described the 10 days they spent in flight as a surreal experience.

"It's a beautiful thing what we got to witness," he says. "We named that space craft Integrity and it just kind of coalesced this thread in the four of us."

Artemis II mission commander Reid Wiseman is the first to speak, opening the news conference by thanking the whole world - and particularly his fellow crew members.

"We are just we are bonded forever. I mean, that's the closest four humans can be and not be a family," he says, adding that they came back as "best friends".

He also thanks Nasa, its international partners and the crew that built the ship, as well as the media, content creators and others who tuned in to watch the mission.

The four Artemis II astronauts are about to appear for their media conference.

You can watch live at the top of this page, and we will also bring you all of the key updates in text.

Helen Sharman
The UK’s first astronaut

From my own experience coming back from space, I can tell you what the Artemis II crew likely went through after splashing back down on Earth.

What they might have felt, first of all, is just really heavy. I remember just lifting up my little finger and noticing how heavy that felt. Then I lifted up the manual that we have for the re‑entry and that again felt really heavy.

The human body is very adaptable. Nonetheless, that feeling of weight continues.

After space you also feel a little bit dizzy and lightheaded. It's like when you have an ear infection and you feel like your head is sort of floating.

It took a few minutes before I started to feel more confident to stand up and probably twenty or thirty paces to learn again to walk in a straight line.

Alison Francis
Senior science journalist

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The Orion capsule had never been used for crewed flight before, and part of the Artemis II mission was to put the spacecraft through its paces.

Coming back into Earth’s atmosphere, the crew inside hurtled at nearly 25,000 miles an hour (40,233km/h) with the outside of the capsule reaching temperatures half as hot as the sun.

Whilst many hours of life on board Orion were streamed throughout the 10 days that the crew were in space, there were no pictures of the crew, or the capsule, as it came back to Earth in a fireball.

During that time, there were also six minutes of communications blackout when mission control could not speak to the crew, and they could not send any messages back.

No one has any idea what that part of the journey was like.

Howard Hu, NASA’s Orion Programme Manager told us he was looking forward to asking the astronauts how their ride home went.

Now we’ll find out just how bumpy or smooth the most dangerous part of their journey was.

The Artemis II crew lifted off from the US state of Florida and splashed down off the coast of California.

Here's what their path through space looked like.

Rebecca Morelle
Science editor

Image source, U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist David Rowe

On Saturday, just a few hours after their dramatic landing, the astronauts had a chance to speak to Nasa friends and colleagues in Houston.

In an emotional homecoming, it was clear they couldn’t quite believe what they’d just been through.

Commander Reid Wiseman said it had felt like a dream, and pilot Victor Glover said he was afraid to even start trying to process the extraordinary experience.

They’ve had a few more days back on Earth now, so we’ll find out more about whether their voyage has started to sink in.

But it may take some time. Astronauts returning home often speak of the “overview effect” - the experience of seeing their home planet hanging in the darkness of space, which can cause a profound shift in perspective.

We’ll also find out the crew are coping with their newfound celebrity - the astronauts went to space relatively unknown, but they’ve become household names.

More than 50 years have passed since Nasa's Apollo missions landed humans on the Moon for the first time in July 1969.

And, while Nasa's Artemis II crew didn't make a lunar landing themselves, their mission will pave the way for the next human footsteps on the Moon.

During their trip the four astronauts flew beyond the far side of the Moon, which always faces away from the Earth. This mission marked the first time it has been seen by human eyes.

Nasa says the mission will set the stage for future missions to explore the Moon's South Pole region.

Studies on the astronauts' health will also help Nasa to better understand how deep space travel influences the human mind and body, protecting astronauts on future lunar missions as well as travel to Mars.

Nasa's goal is for Artemis IV and V to become lunar landing missions - and is aiming for both to happen in 2028.

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Four astronauts - three Americans and one Canadian - trained for more than two years before taking Artemis II around the Moon. They have decades of experience between them - although one had never been to space before.

The Nasa astronauts, who have all previously been to space, are:

Reid Wiseman, 50, the mission's commander.

Victor Glover, 49, the mission's pilot.

Christina Koch, 47, a mission specialist.

And the Canadian Space Agency astronaut is:

Jeremy Hansen, 50, a specialist. This was Hansen's first time in space.

All of the astronauts said they sat down with their families to talk about the risks involved before the launch.

"We've all got someone, an astronaut, that is going to be with our family members when they're watching launch, which can be this terrific and terrifying moment all at the same time," Glover said ahead of the trip.

Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter

We watched them take off, circle unseen parts of the Moon, and splash back down in the ocean last week.

Now, the four astronauts who crewed the Artemis II mission will speak to the media about what it was all like.

Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will answer questions about their historic mission.

We will bring you all the key lines here, as well as analysis about the mission from our science experts.

You can watch live at the top of this page from 14:30 ET (19:30 GMT).