Space.com
By Mike Wall
January 3, 2022
NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is finally home.
Orion arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Dec. 30, wrapping up a nine-day trek across the country on the back of a truck.
KSC was the jumping-off point for Orion’s epic Artemis 1 moon mission, which sent the uncrewed capsule on a shakeout cruise to lunar orbit and back. Artemis 1 launched from KSC on Nov. 16 atop a Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and ended with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California on Dec. 11.