Blast from the past 🚀⁣ ⁣ The Orion spacecraft’s first mission, called Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), launched into space on Dec. 5, 2014. Orion launched on a Delta-IV Heavy booster, flying to an altitude of 3,600 miles above the Earth. The 4.5-hour uncrewed mission demonstrated Orion’s space-worthiness, tested the spacecraft’s heat shield during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, and proved the capsule’s recovery systems. ⁣ ⁣ Orion’s second flight, Artemis I, launched on NASA’s Space Launch System on Nov. 16, 2022. During this mission, Orion reached a maximum distance of 268,563 miles from Earth, traveling farther than any spacecraft built for humans.⁣ ⁣ Today, we are preparing for the Artemis II mission, in which Orion will carry a crew on a 10-day journey around the Moon in April 2026.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls⁣ ⁣ #BlastFromThePast #EFT #Orion #Moon #Spacecraft #NASA #Launch #Rocket #TBT⁣