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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that should clear the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby.
NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Sunday afternoon just off California's Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The 26-day Artemis 1 test mission marked a significant step toward returning astronauts to the moon. Miles O'Brien joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the mission and what's next.
NASA’s lunar capsule Orion returned from the moon at 32 times the speed of sound, splashing down into the Pacific near Guadalupe Island Sunday. The successful mission was the first to visit the moon for 50 years, marking a new era of space exploration.
The two sides agreed that the meeting was candid and constructive and agreed to stay in communication, unquote. so that's a rather positive signal there from beijing, even after the fact that secretary blinken quite recently praised the zero-covid protests that took place earlier in china, protests that were widely censored in china. so nasa is celebrating the success of the artemis one test flight around moon, a 26-day mission after what officials call a textbook return to earth on sunday. >> splashdown. from tranquility base to taurus litro. >> no crew was aboard nasa's orion spacecraft fo...
NASA hailed the descent and splashdown as close to perfect, as congratulations poured in from Washington.