Artemis I mission: “The latest chapter of NASA’s journey to the moon comes to a close. Orion, back on Earth.”
Those were the words that greeted the Orion capsule as it splashed down Sunday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. The spacecraft’s successful return to Earth marking the close of the Artemis I mission, an uncrewed mission that launched from Florida in November, traveling around the moon and back.
This first mission was meant to act as a sort of test flight for Artemis II, which will carry astronauts into space and around the moon. The team at NASA will be paying close attention to data collected from this flight, which traveled about 270,000 miles away from Earth at its farthest point, and endured scorching temperatures of about 5,000 degrees upon reentry.
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