Once astronauts travel deeper into space than ever before in the Orion spacecraft, we’ll need to make sure they get home safe! Watch to see how we test exit procedures after splashdown: http://go.nasa.gov/2gObIzv | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

🌕✨ A splashdown to remember! ✨🌊 On December 11, 2022, at 12:40 p.m. EST, NASA’s Orion spacecraft completed its incredible 25.5-day journey around the Moon and made a perfect landing in the Pacific Ocean! 🚀 This historic moment marked the end of Artemis I, the first big step in NASA’s plan to return humans to the Moon — and one day, go even farther! 🌍➡️🌕 Working together, NASA’s recovery team, the U.S. Navy, and the Department of Defense aboard the USS Portland safely retrieved Orion, testin

Our newest spacecraft, Orion, will be launching into space for the first time this morning on a flight that will take it farther than any spacecraft built to carry humans has gone in more than 40 years and through temperatures twice as hot as molten lava to put its critical systems to the test. Learn more about this "Trial by Fire": http://youtu.be/KyZqSWWKmHQ | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration