According to the foreign news agency, the latest spacecraft developed by the American space agency NASA, Orion, has successfully returned to Earth after 26 days of orbiting the lunar surface. The Orion splashes down into the Pacific Ocean near Mexico.
This is the first test flight of Nasa’s Orion was unmanned, however, a flight that will carry astronauts that will take Orion to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is planned in the year 2024. Orion is Nasa’s exploration aircraft. It is designed to take astronauts to the destinations in deep space, including mars and asteroids.
A video of the landing of the spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean was released by the official account of NASA on the social networking website Twitter. Nasa claims that the Orion returned home after travelling 1.4 million miles in the outer space, orbiting the moon and collecting data.
Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson told the media, “Now, we are doing that again, but for a different purpose, because this time we go back to the Moon to learn to live, to work, to invent, to create, in order to go on out into the cosmos to further explore. The plan is to get ready to go with humans to Mars late in the decade of the 2030s, and then even further beyond.”