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Mission Complete: NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down In Pacific Ocean

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    Orion spacecraft takes a selfie while approaching the Moon ahead of the outbound powered flyby - a burn of Orion's main engine on the @ESA service module. During this maneuver Orion came within 81 miles of the lunar surface. NASA

    NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean around 12:40 pm est, off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California.

    As of 10:24 am est, Orion was 20,000 miles from Earth — traveling at 9,600 mph, NASA said in a tweet.

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