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Splashdown! Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

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Tom Patton
Dec 12, 2022
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:40 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test.

“The splashdown of the Orion spacecraft – which occurred 50 years to the day of t…

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