It's been revealed that the commander of the Artemis II space mission asked to speak to a naval chaplain after splashing back down to earth.
Reid Wiseman was speaking to reporters alongside his three fellow astronauts after they became the first humans to see the far side of the moon.
He said he was profoundly moved during the encounter which happened on board the US Navy ship John P Murtha:
"I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything," Wiseman said. "So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute. And when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his collar, and I just I broke down in tears. It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through."
Wiseman said that in the week since touching down in the Pacific Ocean, he and the other astronauts, Victor Glover, Christian Koch and Jeremy Hansen, had been undergoing medical and scientific tests and hadn't had time to decompress or reflect on their life-changing experience.
"I'm basing this on what I saw and when the sun eclipsed behind the moon, I turned to Victor and said 'I don't think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we're looking at right now', because it was otherworldly and it was amazing."
Glover who is a committed Christian was in the opposite bed when the chaplain arrived and he said it was a "really special moment". Thanking his crew-mate for his reflection, he said: "The only thing I would add is that I am a religious person, but everything else is the same."
The four have won global acclaim for their approach and appreciation for what it means to be human.
Koch said she became emotional when her husband told her the mission had cut through divisions and united people. "When my husband looked me in the eye on that video call and said, 'No, really, you've made a difference', it brought tears to my eyes, and I said, that's all we ever wanted."
The astronauts set the record for travelling the furthest human distance from earth at more than 252,000 miles.