Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“The results were eye-watering. The rocket performed and/or exceeded expectations.” Sarafin went on to say that Orion’s performance thus far has conformed to predictions or deviated from such by less than 0.3-percent."

Source: Artemis I mission manager Mike Sarafin, celebrating the fact that NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday 21 November 2022, passing around the celestial body’s far side, then firing its engines to pass within a scant 81-miles of the lunar surface. The flyby represents an important milestone in NASA’s $93-billion Artemis Project, and occasions the first instance in which a capsule has drawn so near the moon since the Apollo 17 command module departed lunar orbit in December 1972.

FMI: www.nasa.gov