Article 666W5 Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

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Story ImageInsertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space

Nine days into its flight to the Moon and beyond, NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule is due to fire its engines for an insertion burn that will place the craft into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) about 50,000km from the lunar surface....

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