Artemis II San Diego Splashdown Zone

The Pacific recovery zone off San Diego where NASA's Orion spacecraft Integrity splashed down with the Artemis II crew at 5:07 p.m. PDT on April 10, 2026, completing the first crewed Artemis lunar flyby. NASA identifies the zone as approximately 50 miles off San Diego; the mapped point represents that broad recovery area and is not claimed as the capsule's exact touchdown coordinate.