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Splashdown: Orion returns safely from the Moon! What’s next for NASA’s ambitious Artemis program?
Splashdown: Orion returns safely from the Moon! What's next for NASA's ambitious Artemis program?,It's been a long wait, 50 years depending on where you start counting, but the launch of Artemis I on Nov. 16 officially kicked off the next era of human spaceflight. Over the last three weeks, Artemis has gone through its paces, testing out the machinery which will ferry the next class of lunar astronauts to the Moon. Yesterday, that mission completed when the Orion crew module splashed into the Pacific.

Splashdown: Orion returns safely from the Moon! What’s next for NASA’s ambitious Artemis program?

It’s been a long wait, 50 years depending on where you start counting, but the launch of Artemis I on Nov. 16 officially kicked off the next era of human spaceflight. Over the last three weeks, Artemis has gone through its paces, testing out the machinery which will ferry the next class of lunar astronauts to the Moon. Yesterday, that mission completed when the Orion crew module splashed into the Pacific.