So far the Orion capsule has had a successful journey to the moon and back during a 1.3 million mile voyage that has seen it fly the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans ever has.
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The Inside Story: Liftoff!
Episode 69 – December 8, 2022
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NASA Audio:
3…2….1… Liftoff of Artemis !!
Brenda Mulberry, Owner, Space Shirts:
Excitement is over the moon.
Unidentified Narrator:
After months of delays and setbacks….
The 25-ton Orion spacecraft will hit the atmosphere, and skip like a pebble across a pond before plummeting thousands of feet through the air to its target in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA launched the Artemis I moon mission, its first deep space flight of a capsule built for astronauts in a half-century. If all goes according to plan, Orion will travel 1.3 million miles, including past the moon, over a period of weeks.
The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions, the first of which could fly in just over 18 months.