Artemis 1 is only the second time a piece of the moon has been brought back to the moon.
The Artemis 1 mission is the second time this particular button has been launched back into space. It is also the second flight for these Apollo 11 samples aboard an Orion spacecraft. The same lucite-encased dust from Tranquility Base first flew aboard thein 2014. On that mission, the Orion flew into high Earth orbit before plunging back to the planet and splashing down.
, transitioning from Earth to the moon being its main gravitational draw. The spacecraft performed a trajectory correction burn overnight and then fired itsfor two minutes and 30 seconds at 7:44 a.m. EST on Monday to accelerate into the flyby.The Earth and moon as seen by NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft as it approached a lunar flyby on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022.
As expected, communication with Orion was lost for 34 minutes beginning at 7:26 a.m. EST as the spacecraft passed behind the moon. The Goldstone ground station in southern California, part of the Deep Space Network, reacquired Orion's signal once it emerged from the far side.
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