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The emotional reunion came after Christina Koch’s historic 10-day trip around the moon.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch has traveled farther from Earth than any woman in history. But her most celebrated reunion this week may have been the one caught on camera with her rescue dog, Sadie.
A video shared by Koch shows her dog eagerly anticipating her arrival, barking as she opens the door and embraces her pet — a moment that has gone viral since the Artemis II crew returned to Earth on April 10. Another shows them happily running and playing in the ocean.
The emotional reunion came just days after Artemis II splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, following a historic 10-day mission around the moon. Koch shared the clip to her social media accounts, where it quickly spread.
“I’m still pretty sure I was the happier side of this reunion,” she wrote. “Sadie taught me everything I needed to know about being an emotional support animal. Didn’t expect that would come in handy.”
Koch, 47, became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and journey around the moon during the Artemis II mission. She was joined by NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
The crew became the first humans to travel to the moon since NASA’s Apollo era more than a half-century ago. At the mission’s farthest point, the crew reached approximately 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon, surpassing Apollo 13’s distance record.
The mission launched April 1 and flew by the moon April 6, traveling 6,400 miles beyond the moon’s far side before returning to Earth April 10.
Koch is no stranger to breaking records. On a previous mission to the International Space Station in 2019-2020, she set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and conducted the first all-female spacewalks. She shared a similar video of Sadie’s reaction to her return in 2020.
The astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Mission Control after their splashdown the previous evening.
The Artemis II mission also yielded a striking new image: an “Earthset” photo showing the planet setting behind the moon’s gray, cratered surface, echoing the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo taken during Apollo 8.
NASA is now targeting Artemis III, expected to involve crewed operations with a lunar lander, followed by Artemis IV, a planned mission aiming to return astronauts to the moon’s surface near the lunar south pole later this decade.
For now, Koch is happy to be home — and Sadie couldn’t agree more.
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