NASA’s Orion spacecraft has made its closest approach to the moon as part of the Artemis mission.
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’s Artemis program, which aims to eventually establish a lunar outpost that can permanently host astronauts for the first time in history, in the hopes of one day paving a route to Mars. The Artemis I mission launched last Wednesday morning, when ’s Artemis mission manager, put it last week. After lapping the moon, the Orion capsule is expected to turn back toward Earth and make a gentle, splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean on December 11. The target landing site is just off the coast of San Diego, and
understand how astronauts might be affected by future flights. Sarafin told reporters Friday that
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