NASA's Orion capsule just completed its lunar flyby and is now preparing to orbit the Moon, another crucial part of its mission.
NASA has reached yet another milestone in the Artemis 1 mission to send Orion around the Moon and test the capsule’s survivability in space. Earlier today, Orion approached the Moon, losing signal as it completed its Lunar flyby. With Orion’s lunar flyby behind it, the spacecraft will not settle into a distant retrograde orbit to test its systems before heading back home.
Orion is the culmination of years of work from NASA engineers as well as commercial and international partners. And, with the space capsule’s launch earlier this month, we’ve been waiting to see how the mission would go. Though we still have a way to go, seeing Orion complete its lunar flyby is exceptionally exciting.
And, as the space capsule plans to move into its week-long orbit around the Moon at the end of the week, we’re excited to see exactly how well the instruments and particulars work on the capsule. If Orion is successful in its mission, we’ll be one step closer to putting humans back on the Moon. And, from there, perhaps we could see Orion’s lunar flyby leading to a manned mission to Mars in the future.
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