'SNL' Artemis II skit parodies NASA's historic moon mission. Watch

• "Saturday Night Live" parodied NASA's recent Artemis II mission in a skit hosted by actor Colman Domingo.
• The sketch featured Domingo as astronaut Victor Glover, whose serious message from space is interrupted by his crewmates' antics.
• The real Artemis II mission was the first human lunar venture in over 50 years, completing a flyby of the moon.
• This successful mission sets the stage for future Artemis missions, including a planned moon landing in 2028.

NASA's Artemis II mission has inspired equal parts awe, joy and and fascination among those who spent days captivated by the historic journey around the moon.

Now, the first human lunar mission since the Apollo era – which came to an end April 10 with a California water landing – has also inspired parody.

"Saturday Night Live" spoofed the trailblazing Artemis II mission in its April 11 episode, hosted by actor Colman Domingo. In the sketch, an increasingly exasperated NASA pilot Victor Glover (Domingo) tries in vain to deliver a moving reflection on the mission while aboard the Orion spacecraft, but is constantly thwarted by the rest of his crewmates.

Here's a look at the "SNL" Artemis skit.

'SNL' Artemis II skit

The "SNL" Artemis II skit, part of an episode recorded and aired April 11, featured "Euphoria" star Domingo as NASA astronaut Victor Glover attempting to record a video for Earth.

But Glover's introspective message is constantly interrupted by the rest of the crew and their sophomoric shenanigans as boredom sets in nine days into the mission. A floating wayward Pringles can, Sarah Sherman as a sleeping NASA mission specialist Christina Koch and more enter the frame, undermining Glover's attempts to wax philosophic about space and the fragility of life on Earth.

Marcello Hernández as Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen and Mikey Day as commander Reid Wiseman also get up to no shortage of antics in the skit, including a rather gross moment when Wiseman shows off the aftermath of a sneeze in microgravity.

Watch 'Saturday Night Live' parody of Artemis II

What did Artemis II accomplish? What was NASA's moon mission?

After launching April 1 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's Artemis II moon mission came to an end April 10 with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near California.

During the mission, Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen traveled farther in space than any humans ever have while performing a flyby of the moon's far side, where they collected observations and data for scientists back on Earth.

The mission, the first human lunar venture in more than 50 years, served as a test flight setting the stage for a moon landing planned during Artemis IV in 2028. Up next, though, NASA will test out one or both commercial lunar landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin by having Artemis III astronauts dock with them in Earth during in 2027.

Eric Lagatta is the Space Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at [email protected]