NASA Preview of Artemis I Departure from Lunar Orbit (Nov. 30, 2022)

NASA will hold a briefing to preview plans for the Orion spacecraft to exit distant retrograde orbit and begin the journey back to Earth. NASA TV coverage of the first of two maneuvers to exit lunar orbit, called the distant retrograde orbit departure burn, will be Dec. 1, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. EST (21:30 UTC). The burn is scheduled to occur at 4:53 p.m. EST (21:53 UTC). Orion launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at 1:47 am EST (6:47 UTC) on Nov. 16 from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Orion entered a distant retrograde orbit on at 4:52 p.m. EST (21:52 UTC) on Nov. 25, where the spacecraft has been testing systems in a deep space environment. The Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center ground systems. More: Credit: NASA