BREAKING: Artemis I Orion capsule splashes down after completing 25-day trip that reached within 60 miles of the moon.
In this still image taken from NASA TV, NASA's unmanned Orion spaceship splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico, Dec. 11, 2022.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.
"Our spacecraft is home," NASA tweeted at 9:41 a.m. PT Sunday, shortly after the splashdown occurred near Baja California, Mexico., will return the unmanned capsule to Earth in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. After Orion splashes down, it will remain in the water for two hours as NASA performs tests on the heat generated by the capsule upon its return, Frieling said.
The first launch attempt on Aug. 29 was scrubbed due to a faulty temperature sensor that indicated an engine hadn't properly cooled down when it actually had.
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