NASA's Artemis I returns from the moon with hopes to get astronauts back there soon
The successful splashdown of the spacecraft with no humans aboard keeps NASA's Artemis mission on track to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
by Ashley Ahn
Dec 11, 2022
3 minutes
Updated December 11, 2022 at 2:08 PM ET
NASA's new multibillion-dollar spacecraft successfully returned from the moon Sunday, taking the agency one step closer to getting U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2025.
The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Oceanoff the coast of Baja California at 9:40 a.m. PT, marking a successful phase one of . Artemis 1 1.4 million miles, circling the moon, and returned within 25
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