Orion spacecraft emerges from behind the Moon

For NASA’s Artemis I (Artemis-1) mission to the Moon, the Orion spacecraft performed an outbound powered flyby burn by firing the orbital maneuvering system engine for 2 minutes and 30 seconds in order to accelerate the spacecraft, harness the force from the Moon’s gravity, and direct it toward a distant retrograde orbit beyond the Moon. According to NASA, the “Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) provides a highly stable orbit where little fuel is required to stay for an extended trip in deep space to put Orion’s systems to the test in an environment far from Earth.”
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