Around the Moon and into distant orbit – Artemis I: the test that returned Orion to the Moon

Orion entered a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon and spent several days there. The orbit gave the spacecraft the distance from Earth needed to test deep-space systems.

Optical navigation captured the Moon and Earth in a single frame — a modern echo of Apollo 8’s Earthrise. After the lunar operations succeeded, Orion began the trip home.

Orion, the Earth and the Moon in a single frame during the flight (NASA). — Orion, Země a Měsíc v jednom záběru během letu (NASA).

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