The Orion capsule's splashdown caps a 25-day mission less than a week after passing about 79 miles (127 km) above the moon in a lunar fly-by.
NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday, December 11, after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the US agency’s new Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo’s final moon landing.
The splashdown capped a 25-day mission less than a week after passing about 79 miles above the moon in a lunar fly-by, and came about two weeks after reaching its farthest point in space, nearly 270,000 miles from Earth. The debut SLS-Orion voyage kicked off Apollo’s successor program, Artemis, aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface this decade and establishing a sustainable base there as a stepping stone to future human exploration of Mars.
“This has been an extraordinarily successful mission,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson told reporters.
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