Artemis I Orion Begins Trek Back to Earth
On flight day 12 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays captured the Moon as Orion travels in distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft began its journey back to Earth from the Moon on Dec. 1 with the successful execution of the first of two major maneuvers needed to place the uncrewed capsule on course toward a Pacific Ocean splashdown. The Orion capsule’s service module propulsion system...
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