{"id":126796,"date":"2022-12-13T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126796"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:32:04","slug":"nasa-orion-capsule-returns-to-earth-after-25-day-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nasa-orion-capsule-returns-to-earth-after-25-day-test-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Orion capsule returns to earth after 25-day test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NASA Orion capsule returns to earth after 25-day test flight : <\/strong>NASA Orion capsule\u00a0has returned to the\u00a0Earth from the moon on December 11, 2022. NASA has launched the\u00a0Orion capsule from Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022. NASA\u2019s Orion capsule has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after making an uncrewed voyage around the Moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the US space agency\u2019s Artemis lunar programme 50 years to the day after Apollo\u2019s final Moon landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-december-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><br><br>This capsule was hit the atmosphere at 32 times the speed of sound, and endured reentry temperatures of 5,000\u00b0F (2,760\u00b0C) before splashing down west of Baja California near Guadalupe Island.<br>The space agency needed a&nbsp;successful splashdown to stay on track for the next Orion flight around the moon. The gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, carrying a simulated crew of three mannequins wired with sensors, plunged into the ocean at 9:40am Pacific Standard Time (17:40 GMT) on Sunday off Mexico\u2019s Baja California peninsula, executing a key demonstration of how future lunar astronauts would safely return to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Orion capsule returns to earth after 25-day test flight : NASA Orion capsule\u00a0has returned to the\u00a0Earth from the moon on December 11, 2022. NASA has launched the\u00a0Orion capsule from Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022. NASA\u2019s Orion capsule has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after making an uncrewed voyage around the Moon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-126796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126798,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126796\/revisions\/126798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}