NPR⁠84%

WATCH LIVE: Artemis II astronauts have splashed down on Earth ⁠2%

By Amina Khan⁠0%

4/10/2026, 3:48:55 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Anecdotal, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 26.5% saturation with 86 hits. Analysis detected 451 faulty-reasoning hits from 324 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (21,656 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.90% of the article peer group.

WATCH LIVE: Artemis II astronauts have splashed down on Earth 
The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission are about to plunge through the atmosphere toward Earth, after a successful visit to the moon. 
After a nearly 10-day journey that took the Artemis II astronauts around the moon, in front of an eclipse and farther away from Earth than any humans before them, the crew of four have made a dramatic return home. 
The Artemis II astronauts share a group hug aboard the Orion capsule. 
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen were ensconced in the Orion space capsule when they dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. 
Friday. 
The USS John P. 
Murtha is stationed near the splashdown zone to help recover the crew. 
To get back to Earth, the space capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and slow down from nearly 25,000 miles per hour — or more than 30 times the speed of sound — to a gentle 19 mph or so before splashdown. 
The roughly 13-minute journey from the top of the atmosphere to the surface is like "riding a fireball through the atmosphere," NASA astronaut and Artemis II crew member Victor Glover said before the maneuver. 
But, he said, it's also a necessary one. 
"We have to get back," Glover said. 
"There's so much data that you've seen already, but all the good stuff is coming back with us." 
The crew of four, who looped around the far side of the moon on Monday April 6, took photos and made observations as they passed over the lunar surface. 
The crew is set to bring that data and more back to the team on the ground. 
Nell Greenfieldboyce and Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne contributed to this report. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 2.5%Amina Khan: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias2.5%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 14.5%Amina Khan: 3.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic14.5%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.2%Amina Khan: 1.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect6.2%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 22.8%Amina Khan: 5.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias22.8%This article: 2.2%Amina Khan: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias2.2%This article: 3.7%Amina Khan: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias3.7%This article: 5.6%Amina Khan: 1.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias5.6%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 12.0%Amina Khan: 3.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect12.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.2%Amina Khan: 1.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma5.2%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 26.5%Amina Khan: 6.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion26.5%This article: 2.2%Amina Khan: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question2.2%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 16.0%Amina Khan: 4.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal16.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 2.5%Amina Khan: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)2.5%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 6.2%Amina Khan: 1.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection6.2%This article: 7.4%Amina Khan: 6.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice7.4%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amina Khan: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 3.7%Amina Khan: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…3.7%

324 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker21%attributed speech257writer words
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Victor Glover

100%flagged-word coverage
67 attributed words100% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Biased Writer Voice-9.3 ptsWriter: 9.3%Victor Glover: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-7.8 ptsWriter: 7.8%Victor Glover: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -4.7 ptsWriter: 4.7%Victor Glover: 0.0%0.0%

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Analysis

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