Orion will “skip” along the atmosphere during the return.
. Orion traveled around the Moon and made a second close flyby on the return journey and is now on its way back to Earth.
“At present, we are on track to have a fully successful Mission with some bonus objectives that we’ve achieved along the way,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, in a press conference on Thursday. He went on to say the main objectives for the day of splashdown are to test Orion’s re-entry and to practice the retrieval of the spacecraft from the ocean.
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