One of the Navy Seahawk pilots who helped recover the Artemis II crew Friday is from Birmingham.
Lt. Julia Buckner was assigned to retrieve the astronauts for transport onto the USS John P. Murtha.
The Artemis II crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen successfully returned to Earth Friday when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near the coast of San Diego…