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Bay Area residents and employees of NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View celebrated the touchdown of the Artemis II mission last night. The crew of the Artemis II splashdown aboard the Orion capsule came at 5:07 p.m. off the coast of San Diego and were picked up by the U.S. Navy. Scientists, families and schoolchildren crowded the halls of the NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland to discuss the Artemis II technology, its scientific impact, and how they felt unified by the space-faring humans. Cara Dodge works as an exhibition manager at the NASA Ames Research Center. She said Ames is the second oldest NASA center in the country, after Langley Field in Virginia, and has played an important role in making the [See ASTRONAUTS, page 35]
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