Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope captured the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft when it was about 342,000 km (212,508 mi.) ...

NASA moved its payload adapter at the Space Flight Center in Huntsville to prepare for the upcoming Artemis IV mission ...

NASA tested a boilerplate version of the Orion spacecraft in December 2014, launching it to an altitude of nearly 6,000 km. From that orbit Orion reentered Earth's atmosphere at a velocity of 9 km/s.

Watch the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA ...

Director Joseph Pelfrey paid homage to the thousands of workers whose careers have placed them at Marshall since its founding ...

Upon Orion's dip back into the atmosphere after its skip, the spacecraft will slow to about 300 mph to deploy its parachutes. Orion will then slow to about 20 mph just before splashdown.