The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission will return to Earth on Friday, April 10, concluding their landmark voyage around the Moon.

The homecoming will feature a fiery re-entry as the spacecraft races through Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

The splashdown is slated for 8:07 p.m. ET on April 10 (5:07 a.m. IST on April 11).

The spacecraft is expected to land off the coast of San Diego, with recovery teams already in position for the crew’s return.

On board the Orion spacecraft are NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The mission marks the first time humans have traveled beyond Earth orbit since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission.

With Glover, Koch and Hansen on the crew, it is also the first time a Black astronaut, a woman astronaut and a non-American astronaut, respectively, have journeyed this far into space.

“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,” Hansen said Thursday.

Orion is flying on what’s known as a “free return trajectory” — a spaceflight term for a natural slingshot path.

Thanks to orbital dynamics and the Moon’s gravity, even if the spacecraft had not fired its engine again, it would still have looped around the Moon and automatically headed back to Earth.