Humanity has made great strides this year in exploring the deep mysteries of space and opening doors for many.
December 22, 2022, 6:05 AMOn flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 5, 2022, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return powered flyby, the final major engine maneuver of the flight test."Space: The final frontier" were the iconic words spoken by Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the hit television series "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: Next Generation," respectively, at the beginning of each episode.
The Webb telescope uses powerful infrared technology and can reveal new details of space that Hubble, which launched in 1990, cannot. Artemis I reached within 60 miles of the moon and spent 25.5 days in space and traveled on a 1.4-million-mile journey around the moon, according to reports from NASA.Artemis I launch of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in FloridaNASA's unmanned Orion spaceship splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico, Dec. 11, 2022.
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