On Friday, NASA announced that Artemis I flight controllers successfully performed a burn to insert the Orion into a distant retrograde orbit.
The Artemis I mission added on Twitter that flight controllers will monitor key systems and perform checkouts while in the environment of deep space since the lunar device is in the lunar orbit.
Artemis I said in its blogpost: "The orbit is distant in that Orion will fly about 40,000 miles above the Moon. Due to the distance of the orbit, it will take Orion nearly a week to complete half an orbit around the Moon, where it will exit the orbit for the return journey home."
It added that the Orion will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11.
The mission also revealed that today, Saturday, the Orion will make a new milestone as it will break the record of the farthest distance conducted by a spaceship designed to carry humans to space and return to Earth.
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