(SAN DIEGO) The Artemis I Orion capsule has splashed down after a 25-day trip that reached within 60 miles of the moon, completing the first step in an ambitious plan to establish a long-term presence there and later send a crewed shuttle to Mars. The spacecraft spent 25.5 days in space and journeyed on
NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the US agency's new Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo's final moon landing..Th
In a video NASA shared of its momentous return, one can see the Orion spacecraft carried by parachutes moments before splashing down into the Pacific Ocean.