Senator Jerry Moran congratulated the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Kansas suppliers on the recent return of the Artemis I Deep Space Mission. Moran took to social media on Monday in reaction to the return of NASA’s unmanned Orion Spacecraft after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, 50 years to the day of the Apollo 17 moon landing.
The spacecraft landed to the west of Baja, California at 12:40 Sunday afternoon in what NASA called a record-breaking mission. The craft traveled more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon before returning to earth. The Artemis One Mission will be followed by another flight which NASA reports may come as early as 2024. This mission will attempt to carry four astronauts around the moon while another mission, set for 2025, will feature the first lunar landing by astronauts since the Apollo Moon program ended 50 years ago.
