China News Service, November 22, based on comprehensive US media news, five days after launch, NASA's "Orion" spacecraft arrived at the moon on the 21st local time, from 81 miles above the lunar surface (about 130 km) km) and continue to orbit the Moon.
According to the "Washington Post", this marks a key step for NASA to return to the moon.
The spacecraft also sent back a photo of Earth as a small blue dot surrounded by darkness, according to the Associated Press.
On November 21, 2022, a picture of the earth taken by NASA's "Orion" spacecraft.
According to previous reports, the giant lunar exploration rocket "Space Launch System" carrying the "Orion" spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on November 16, starting the "Artemis 1" unmanned flight around the moon. test task.
The mission had previously been delayed several times due to malfunctions or bad weather.
If this plan can be successfully completed, NASA plans to send astronauts to the moon in the follow-up "Artemis 3" mission.
After that, the agency plans to regularly carry out the "Artemis" mission to the moon, sending astronauts to the South Pole region of the moon for exploration and research.