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Orion Begins Its Journey Home

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
NASA
December 5, 2022
Orion Begins Its Journey Home
Moon and Earth Seen As Orion Heads Home
NASA

On Monday, Dec. 5, Orion made its closest approach to the Moon, flying 79.2 miles above the lunar surface and performed the return powered flyby burn at 10:43 a.m. CST. The return powered flyby is the last large maneuver of the mission, with only smaller trajectory corrections to target Earth remaining.

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4 responses to “Orion Begins Its Journey Home”

  1. Bob Mahoney says:
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    So, what’s the red dot?

  2. Bill Housley says:
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    Question…

    ARS Technica posted an article a couple of days ago throwing shade at the likelihood of Artemis II in 2024 and Artemis III in 2025. It says that due to a couple of silly planning errors it is more likely to be closer to 2025 and 2028 respectively.

    Would any of you insders care to comment on that? I think I understand the 2025 one, which is well explained within the article, but I’m so sure about the 2028 for Artemis III part. It doesn’t seem like that kind of bucket brigade to me.

  3. Richard Brezinski says:
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    I suspect the way in which this will work out: Artemis 2 will be ready in 2-3 years. By that time there will have been several unsuccessful and successful test flights of the Space X Star Ship and flights with people, including the Dear Moon flight. Artemis 2 will be anticlimactic but it might not even happen when people see that Star Ship is capable of carrying out the Artemis mission much more expeditiously and far less expensively than the present NASA plan.

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