After a couple of minutes, Endeavour lose almost all of its own orbital velocity. Sinking into the lower air, its parachutes deployed in a careful arrangement, along with the spacecraft drifted down from blue sky into blue seas. They had been home. For the very first time in 4.5 decades, astronauts returned from distance and splashed down to the sea, such as the Apollo-era heroes that walked round the Moon. This really is a Herculean job for the bureau's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, who's balancing politics, financing, and technical challenges to drive NASA and its contractors ahead. Right after the landing, Bridenstine revived his pitch to get this particular Artemis Moon program through a splashdown news conference. Wearing a polo shirt emblazoned with the Artemis emblem, he explained,"We need to be certain that another generation does not overlook this chance. Today was a fantastic success, but it was only a start. Afterward, Bridenstine added this remark:"When