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Four small pieces of the moon on a NASA spacecraft have come closer to the lunar surface than they have been in over 50 years. The Apollo 11 samples' return home was part of the Artemis 1 mission.
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The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions, the first of which could fly in just over 18 months.
The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions.
The spacecraft, due to launch uncrewed atop NASA's new mega moon rocket on Saturday, has cost more than $18 billion to build and will be used for the US space agency's Artemis programme.
The Orion spacecraft will build on a half a century of spaceflight science to carry humanity beyond the limits of the Earth’s orbit, back to the moon, and to Mars.