Photos: This is what NASA’s Orion spacecraft saw during its 26-day journey circling the moon.
NASA’s Artemis program’s first mission is scheduled to conclude Sunday with the Orion spacecraft’s fiery return through Earth’s atmosphere and a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.Artemis I blasts off with the Orion spacecraft on board, on Nov. 16.The flight had no astronauts on board, but the program’s goal is to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era of the 1960s and early ‘70s.Astronauts on Apollo 9 in March 1969.
The Orion spacecraft chronicled its trip with several cameras mounted to the outside of the spacecraft, capturing images reminiscent of what the Apollo astronauts saw.A view of Earth as it moves above the moon's horizon, as seen from the Apollo 11 spacecraft, in July 1969. The Orion takes a close-up of the moon. The next step, Artemis II, will be to send a crew of astronauts around the moon, and eventually a human landing on the moon, which NASA hopes could happen as early as 2025.
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