NASA's Orion capsule makes its closesr approach to moon.
The uncrewed Orion capsule of NASA's Artemis I mission sailed within 80 miles of the lunar surface on Monday, achieving the closest half a century ago.
The Capsule's lunar flyby on the return leg of its debut voyage, came a week after Orion reached its fartherst point in space, nearly 270000 miles from Earth while midway thorugh its 25 day mission, the U.S. space agency said on its website. Orion passed about 79 miles above the lunar surface on monday as the spacecraft fired its thrusters for a "powered flyby burn," designed to change the vehicle's velocity set it on course for its flight back to earth.
Nasa said the 3-1/2 minute burn would mark the last major space flight maneuver for Orion before it was dueto parachute into the sea and splash down on dec 11. The last time a space craft designed for human travel came as close to the moon as Orion was the final mission of the Apollo program , Apollo 17, which carried Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt to the Lunar surface 50 years ago this month. They were the Last of 12 NASA astronauts who walked on the moon during a totalof six Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972.
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