Watch as Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft leaves lunar orbit Thursday
And things have been going well so far; the SLS did its job on Nov. 16, and Orion has been checking off boxes ever since. One of the most important milestones was insertion into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon, which the spacecraftOn Wednesday , the Artemis 1 team held a meeting to determine whether or not Orion is ready to leave DRO, and the result was unanimous.
"All of our mission management team members polled go for returning Orion back to the Earth," Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said during a press conference on Wednesday evening. So Orion's time in DRO will come to an end on Thursday. The capsule will still have a fair bit of spaceflying ahead of it, however: Orion isn't scheduled to land on its home planet until Dec. 11.
On that day, the spacecraft will splash down under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA and the U.S. Navy are already training for the homecoming, practicing the recovery operation that will wrap up the Artemis 1 mission." , a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter
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