# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DDfsjxWuXvd
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-12T22:34:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

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Blast from the past 🚀⁣
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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. ⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls⁣
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#BlastFromThePast #EFT #Orion #Moon #Spacecraft #NASA #Launch #Rocket #TBT⁣

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