Best for: Deep sleep, winding down
It is the seventh day of the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in fifty-three years. The correction burn lasted fifteen seconds. The capsule — Integrity — holds three hundred and thirty cubic feet of pressurised air and four people falling home at three thousand miles an hour.
The flyby is over. The Moon is smaller than a fist held at arm's length. And in the amber dark of the quietest night, a mission specialist floats to the window, pushes aside the T-shirt curtain, and watches a meteoroid strike the surface — a flash that has happened billions of times with no one watching.
Based on the real Artemis II mission, which splashed down on 10 April 2026.