11 Apr 2026

Splashdown

Digital painting of the Artemis II splashdown, where the spacecraft has landed in the ocean and its three parachutes are beginning to deflate. It’s very roughly painted.
  • ~45m
  • heavypaint
  • struggled a lot… this is actually my second attempt at this photo; i spent about 50 minutes fruitlessly trying to paint it in procreate before giving up and switching to heavypaint, which encouraged me to be a bit more loose with it

per NASA:

Artemis II Recovery

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard is seen as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 8:07p.m. EDT, NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha.

photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

what a thrill to watch this yesterday