Artemis: Orion begins journey back home, all eyes on splash down

Nasa’s Artemins I Orion spacecraft, which was launched on November 16, has left lunar orbit to head back to Earth on Thursday. The spacecraft has been in distant retrograde around the Moon since November 25.

Meanwhile, NASA has been putting the vehicle’s various systems through their paces as the US space agency considers it successful, resulting in additional test objectives.The capsule is expected to splash down at sea on December 11.