Exploring the Mysteries of Orion!

ORMOUS 🌒 on Instagram: "After a 25-day journey around the Moon, NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022. A recovery team aboard the USS Portland (LPD-27) was on hand to bring the capsule safely back to shore. Following splashdown, flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ran a series of tests while Orion floated in open water — collecting valuable data, especially on how the spacecraft handled the intense heat of re-entr