Welcome home! Artemis 2's Orion capsule returns to Florida
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The Orion space capsule, which carried four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon, has left San Diego for a cross-country journey to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The capsule was recovered by the US Navy and engineers removed parts that will be used for future missions.
The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule
As preparations for NASA’s next Artemis mission accelerate, the agency and its mission partners aim to maximize lessons learned from Integrity, the Orion spacecraft that returned the Artemis II crew safely to Earth on April 10 after a fiery reentry at 24,664 mph and a lunar roundtrip of almost 695...
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