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NASA's Orion craft has completed an impressive 'departure burn' manoeuvre on a livestream as it returns back to Earth from its landmark journey around the Moon

NASA's most dramatic return to the Moon since Apollo is now halfway done. The Artemis I Orion capsule has now reached its farthest distance from Earth.

Picture highly evolved raptors planting their flag on the moon

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…

NASA's most recent Moon mission is stoking the flames of a burgeoning lunar economy.

The Orion capsule from the NASA Artemis I mission performed the first of two critical maneuvers to reach a highly-stable orbit around the Moon.

It passed just 81 miles above the Moon's surface.

Orion’s arrival marks the first time the US space agency has been to the moon since the 1972 Apollo programme.

The spacecraft passed 81 miles above the Moon’s surface on Monday, marking a major milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon is incredibly hot, and also incredibly cold.