NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached the moon Monday, passing within 81 miles of the lunar surface, marking the completion of the a key step in the space agency’s Artemis campaign to return astronauts there within a few years.
The spacecraft’s service module autonomously fired its engines at 7:44 a.m. Eastern time for two-and-a-half minutes while it flew behind the moon and was out of communications with ground controllers. The burn propelled the capsule toward an orbit around the moon that was expected to reach 268,552 miles from Earth, farther than any spacecraft designed for human spaceflight has flown and breaking a record set during the Apollo 13 mission.
Leading up to Monday’s engine burn, known as the “outbound powered flyby,” Mike Sarafin, the Artemis I mission manager, said the spacecraft, “is exceeding performance expectations” and officials at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston gave the “go” to fire the engine. The capsule was built by Lockheed Martin, and the service module was supplied by the European Space Agency in a partnership with NASA.
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