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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA (AP) – NASA’s Orion capsule reached the Moon on Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the Moon since NASA’s Apollo programme 50 years ago, and […]
Mission controllers faced an anxious wait on Monday as they lost signal from the Orion rocket for 34 minutes during the manoeuvre
NASA's Orion capsule reached the moon on Monday, whipping around the back side and passing within 128 kilometres on its way to a record-breaking lunar orbit.
The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.
NASA's Orion capsule has reached the moon, whipping around the far side and passing within about 80 miles