NASA’s Orion capsule fell toward Earth Sunday afternoon, closing out its 25-day test flight around the moon 50 years to the day after Apollo’s final moon landing.
We’re one step closer to the next moon walk.
NASA’s Orion capsule returned to Earth Sunday afternoon, ending its 25-day test flight around the moon — 50 years to the day of the Apollo program’s last moon landing. The capsule — with no crew aboard — made an ocean splashdown at 12:40 p.m. EST off Mexico’s Baja California, trekking some 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth.
The Orion capsule’s 25,000 mph re-entry coincides with the 50th anniversary of the last lunar landing by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 11, 1972.After years of setbacks, the rocket blasted off Nov. 16 from Kennedy Space Center as part of NASA’s Space Launch System — and is the biggest and most powerful NASA rocket since the Saturn V of the Apollo era.The Orion spacecraft at its maximum distance from Earth on flight day 13.
Testing whether Orion’s newly designed heat shield withstands atmospheric friction upon re-entry — which causes temperatures to raise to nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit — was the top priority of the Artemis I mission,“It is our priority-one objective,” Sarafin said at a briefing last week. “There is no arc-jet or aerothermal facility here on Earth capable of replicating hypersonic re-entry with a heat shield of this size.
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