After more than a week of record-setting space travel, the Artemis II crew is headed for Earth, and a Baltimore County high school is celebrating one of its own.

Dulaney High School is hosting a “splashdown party” Friday night to watch mission commander Reid Wiseman — a 1993 alum from Cockeysville — return.

The event starts at 7 p.m., and the broadcast will air on a projector in the school’s auditorium, organizers said on social media. The crew is expected to splash into the Pacific Ocean in California a little after 8 p.m. Friday.

The Artemis II crew has already begun its descent back to Earth. NASA officials say the Orion spacecraft will reach the upper atmosphere southeast of Hawaii around 7:53 p.m., when there will be a communications blackout for about six minutes. Orion will jettison its forward cover and deploy the parachutes needed for the crew to land safely.

NASA will livestream the landing on its YouTube page starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.

The crew took off from Florida on April 1, fulfilling Wiseman’s 83-year-old father’s wish to see him in space. By April 6, the Artemis II crew had traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them — 252,756 miles.

That day, crew members recommended names for two craters on the moon: Integrity, the crew’s name for their spacecraft, and Carroll, for Wiseman’s late wife, who died of cancer in May 2020.

A Virginia Beach native, Carroll Wiseman spent time in Maryland working as a school nurse at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to her obituary in The Virginian-Pilot. She and Reid Wiseman, who have two daughters, were living in Texas at the time of her death.

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll,” mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said.

The moment moved crew members to tears before they floated to embrace one another.

Along with Wiseman and Hansen, others aboard Integrity are pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, who spent time in Maryland in the 2000s working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and sailing with the Goddard Sailing Association and the Severn Sailing Association.