Heartwarming video shows Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch reuniting with her dog - BERITAJA

Being separated from your canine could beryllium ruff, particularly if that separation includes being launched into space, but that makes the reunion each the much pawsome.

In an Instagram station shared connected Sunday, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, 1 of the 4 Artemis II unit members, is seen entering her location aft returning from her abstraction ngo — and her dog, Sadie, is about to blast disconnected from sheer excitement.

Sadie is seen jumping astatine the doorway aft Koch becomes visible done the window. Her tail frantically wags and she barks pinch joyousness arsenic Koch enters. The dog, experiencing what galore telephone “the zoomies,” runs backmost and distant crossed the room.

“I’m still beautiful judge I was the happier broadside of this reunion,” Koch wrote. “Sadie taught maine everything I needed to cognize about being an affectional support animal. Didn’t expect that would travel successful handy.”

Koch, successful the aforesaid post, shared different video showing her and Sadie moving and jumping together connected the formation and done the water waves.

Koch and her chap Artemis II unit members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — traveled a full of 694,481 miles, making their lunar flyby the farthest humans person ever traveled from Earth. The erstwhile region grounds was group by the Apollo 13 ngo successful 1970.

After 10 days successful space, the Artemis II unit safely returned to Earth connected Friday, splashing down successful the Pacific Ocean disconnected the seashore of San Diego.

The Artemis II mission's information will apt assistance successful the readying for early satellite landings.

“Artemis II subject will pave the measurement for early missions to the Moon’s aboveground by helping beforehand ngo operations and training astronauts to usage well-informed judgement to place areas of precocious liking for subject and exploration,” NASA wrote.