Artemis II Crew Returns to JSC Houston After Three-City Canada Tour (Day 36 Post-Splashdown)

Following the completion of their three-city Canadian public tour on May 15, all four Artemis II crew members — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (CSA) — returned to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on May 16, 2026, resuming post-flight physiological recovery and debrief activities. Day 36 post-splashdown (Orion splashed down April 10, 2026 at 8:07 p.m. EDT, approximately 14 miles off the coast of San Diego). The Canada tour covered three cities in three days: Ottawa (May 13 — meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Museum of Nature and a sold-out 'Meet the Crew' event at the National Arts Centre), Saint-Hubert, QC (May 14 — bilingual public virtual event at CSA headquarters, broadcast live on CSA YouTube and Facebook), and Montreal (May 15 — ticketed talk at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, organized by the CCMM and CSA, $110 CAD tickets). The tour was the international portion of the crew's post-mission public engagement program and highlighted Canada's Artemis partnership, particularly Jeremy Hansen's historic milestone as the first non-American on a lunar trajectory since the Shuttle era. With the crew back in Houston, post-flight medical evaluations and mission debriefs advance. At Kennedy Space Center, the Orion crew module continues Day 36 visual heat shield inspection at the Multi-Payload Processing Facility; formal X-ray scans and Avcoat sample extractions at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center remain on track for summer 2026.