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Once it returns to Earth, Orion will have traveled more than 1.4 million miles

Orion is on track to return home, where it will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11, if all goes according to plan.

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 — Nasa’s Orion spaceship made a close pass of the Moon and used a gravity assist to whip itself back towards Earth yesterday, marking the start of the return...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecrafts return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecrafts return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return...

The upcoming debut of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis I mission will mark a return to flight for four main engines that already have a remarkable history of their own.

(CNN) — The Orion spacecraft, which is at the core of NASA’s historic Artemis I mission, reached its farthest distance from Earth Monday afternoon, shattering the record for the maximum distance a spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever traveled. The space agency confirmed Monday evening that the Orion capsule had reached the midpoint of […]

NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully broken the record for the farthest distance that a spacecraft has reached as it continues to track the moon's orbit.

The United States’ space agency, NASA’s Orion spacecraft, reached a key milestone in its voyage around the Moon by travelling furthest than any spacecraft designed to carry humans has before. On Monday, NASA confirmed that the uncrewed Orion capsule has moved at least 270,000 miles (430,000 km) beyond Earth marking the midpoint of the mission. 

Lockheed Martin, the brilliant engineering team behind Artemis I's flagship Orion Space Capsule, has claimed it is indeed capable of going to Mars o...