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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>The US space agency\u2019s Orion capsule has reached a key milestone on its demonstration mission around the Moon. On Monday, it moved some 430,000km (270,000 miles) beyond the Earth \u2013 the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has travelled.<\/p>\n

The ship is uncrewed on this occasion, but if it completes the current flight without incident, astronauts will be on the next outing in two years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

Nasa is planning a series of ever more complex missions with Orion. They\u2019re part of the agency\u2019s Artemis programme, which seeks to return people to the lunar surface after a gap of 50 years.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s milestone marks the middle point of the mission. \u201cThis halfway point teaches us to number our days so that we can get a heart of wisdom,\u201d said Mike Sarafin, Nasa\u2019s Artemis mission manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe halfway point affords us an opportunity to step back and then look at what our margins are and where we could be a little smarter to buy down risk and understand the spacecraft\u2019s performance for crewed flight on the very next mission.<\/p>\n

\u201d Orion has been streaming back some spectacular video of its journey. Just before reaching the record distance, it captured the Moon moving in front of the Earth.<\/p>\n

The capsule was launched from Florida\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on 16 November on a 26-day mission designed to stretch its systems and make sure it is safe to carry astronauts.<\/p>\n

Orion is being pushed through space by a service module provided by the European Space Agency (Esa). This vehicle incorporates the big thrusters needed to make manoeuvres. The Esa module delivered two key engine burns last week to get Orion into a big loop around the Moon known as a Distant Retrograde Orbit.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called \u201cdistant\u201d because the path takes Orion a long way from the Moon\u2019s surface (61,000km; 38,000 miles) and \u201cretrograde\u201d because it sends the capsule in the opposite direction to the lunar body\u2019s direction of travel.<\/p>\n

It will require two further manoeuvres in the coming days to put the capsule on the correct trajectory to come home. The spacecraft is due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego in California on 11 December.<\/p>\n

Controllers have been delighted with the performance to date. Orion, with its shepherding Esa module, has used much less fuel than expected. It\u2019s also generated more power than anticipated, while also being very frugal with its energy consumption.<\/p>\n

There have been some small technical niggles, but \u201cnone of the anomalies, or funnies, that are out there are of consequence\u201d, said Mr Sarafin. Controllers did lose communications with the capsule for 45 minutes on one occasion but this was determined to be an issue related to the configuration of equipment on Earth.<\/p>\n

The previous record for the most distant point reached by a human-rated spacecraft was set by the Apollo-13 mission in April 1970. It went out to 400,171km (248,655 miles) from Earth as its crew fought to navigate their way home following an explosion in their capsule\u2019s service module.<\/p>\n

One of the manikins on board Orion has been nicknamed Commander Moonikin Campos in honour of Arturo Campos, a Nasa engineer who played a critical role in helping to get the troubled Apollo 13 back.<\/p>\n

The first crewed Artemis mission is presently scheduled for late 2024. An Orion flight that would also see astronauts go down to the lunar surface could occur as early as 2025 or 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, Artemis builds on Apollo,\u201d Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only are we going farther and coming home faster, but Artemis is paving the way to live and work in deep space in a hostile environment, to invent, to create, and ultimately to go on with humans to Mars.<\/p>\n

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