{"id":11986,"date":"2022-12-12T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/nasas-orion-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-after-momentous-mission-to-moon"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:16:43","slug":"nasas-orion-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-after-momentous-mission-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/nasas-orion-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-after-momentous-mission-to-moon","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft returns to Earth after momentous mission to moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth after a momentous mission to the moon, the agency announced Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Having traveled over 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon, it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California at 9.40 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (1740GMT), said the agency in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe splashdown is the final milestone of the Artemis I mission that began with a successful liftoff of NASA\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Nov. 16, from Launch Pad 39B at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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