This historic lunar venture marked the first time astronauts return to the vicinity of the moon since 1972. The mission traveled farther from Earth than any human ever has, breaking the Apollo program's distance record.

Sunset Blastoff

Humanity has once again shown what we are capable of, and it's your hopes for the future that carry us now on this journey around the moon. ~ Jeremy Hansen

People of Earth, you look beautiful. ~ Victor Glover

We have a beautiful moonrise, we're headed right at it. ~ Reid Wiseman

With this burn to the moon, we do not leave Earth. We choose it. ~ Christina Koch

The four Artemis II astronauts safely returned to Earth after flying around the moon on NASA's first lunar mission in more than 50 years. After a fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego in their Orion capsule at 8:07 p.m. ET. to cheers from mission control teams, recovery crews, and millions watching around the world, marking a triumphant return for humanity's renewed journey to the Moon.

It was a picture-perfect splashdown, with the capsule landing upright under three huge parachutes as recovery teams raced to the scene. Minutes before, a six-minute communications blackout with mission controllers made for a nail-biting finish to the mission as the capsule plunged through Earth's atmosphere. Then, a very welcome call-out came over the airwaves.

Over at CNN, scientists, former astronauts, and even Captain Kirk (William Shatner) watched unfolding events with great enthusiasm. Many remarked on how the moment felt like a return to the golden age of spaceflight, with the splashdown evoking a distinctly retro, almost cinematic echo of the 20th-century Apollo program splashdowns - a nostalgic reminder of when daring lunar journeys first captured the imagination of the world.

The mission felt perfectly timed from the moment of lift off with small glitches along the way - the main one being problems with the toilet - with the rest smooth sailing.

Welcome back to Earth.

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Looking back at my UFO encounter in space at age eleven - makes our current space journey a primitive form of travel.

We've all seen science-fiction productions that take us beyond the planet - often in the blink of an eye - and have to wonder why after five decades humans never returned to the moon until now.

Did it have to do with extraterrestrial interference, government conspiracies, science and technology, finance, or the simulation of our reality itself timed to bring this information to the fore based on the algorithm of its design?

I still remember the early days of space exploration, watching ocean splashdowns and listening to whispers of what astronauts witnessed that could only fit under the heading of science fiction.

As if by design, and no longer tethered by the fear of government scrutiny, many of those early pioneers have finally broken their silence in books and interviews. They speak openly about the profound, life-altering perspectives of their journeys, matching the quiet truth I've carried since the day I was taken.

Insiders are increasingly breaking their silence and demanding the truth be revealed after decades of calculated coverups. While Trump has pledged to declassify decades of documents - many remain skeptical expecting heavily redacted pages - akin to the enduring secrecy surrounding the X-Files and Epstein Files mysteries. I doubt that the Epstein files and those they protect overlap into extraterrestrial conspiracies - but you never know. That would put the "X" in sex.

Since man first explored the moon - and remote viewers such as myself and others have been there and back - you have to wonder why humanity hasn't gone beyond the moon - or is it all green screen the farther out you go ... created by the simulation itself.

As the final narrative of the human exploration in time and space comes to an end - the number of UFO (UAP) sightings is increasing - usually as balls of light and other forms of surveillance drones left behind by extraterrestrials after their experiments ended in 2007.

It's doubtful the Artemis II lunar mission took photos of UFOs or objects on the moon that will change the way we think about extraterrestrials and their interaction with the human experiment.

The fusion of Artificial Intelligence and truth-seeking will soon unveil a profound secret ... that our reality is a simulation having a beginning and an end - or a definitive runtime. Such a revelation would offer a new understandable perspective on the 'pot-stirring' political strategies of Trump and his contemporaries, aligning their actions with a broader, systemic unraveling. Similarly, escalating climate crises and social upheavals can be viewed as data spikes within the consciousness grids that project our world, signaling that the simulation is reaching its final phase.