Stunning close-up images of the lunar surface were captured by the Orion capsule as it orbits the moon
NASA’s Orion capsule has sent back stunning pictures from its maiden voyage. The pictures show the spacecraft flying just 130 kilometres above the moon’s surface, the closest approach of its entire mission.towards the moon atop the Space Launch System rocket on 16 November. This test flight, called the Artemis I mission, will take Orion into orbit around the moon and then back home, where it will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean on 11 December.
Now that the close flyby is done, the capsule is flying further from the moon, preparing to enter what’s called a distant retrograde orbit on 25 November. The final orbit will be about 92,000 kilometres from the lunar surface, and will allow Orion to use less fuel than a closer orbit while it circles the moon for six days.
Just after it enters lunar orbit, it is expected to surpass the record for the largest distance travelled from Earth by a spacecraft designed for humans – a record that Apollo 13 set at about 400,000 kilometres in 1970. If all goes well with this test flight,will carry humans around the moon in 2024 in the Artemis II mission, and in Artemis III the capsule will be used to take astronauts back to the surface of the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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