NASA's Orion space capsule to splashdown after crewless voyage around the moon and back | The World



NASA’s historic Artemis 1 Orion capsule is expected to splashdown in the Pacific ocean in the early hours of Monday morning. The unmanned spacecraft has already had a highly impressive outing, but landing safely back on earth will be key to unlocking a series of increasingly complex missions aimed at enabling human exploration on the moon and Mars in the years to come. Astrophysicist Clare Kenyon tells The World the spacecraft will be undertaking “an incredibly complex manoeuvre”.

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