After traveling 1.4 million miles through space, orbiting the Moon, and collecting data that will prepare us to send astronauts on future, Orion lands

Splashdown.

After traveling 1.4 million miles through space, orbiting the Moon, and collecting data that will prepare us to send astronauts on future #Artemis missions, the @NASA_Orion spacecraft is home. pic.twitter.com/ORxCtGa9v7

— NASA (@NASA) December 11, 2022

Reaction here halfway across the country to Orion splashdown, with hundreds of employees who worked on this program for many, many years. Just AWESOME!!! 💦🛰️ #ArtemisI #WeWent pic.twitter.com/QA8sYjuBOH

— Lauren Duda (@deepspaceduda) December 11, 2022

12 hours til @NASA_Orion’s re-entry and splashdown!

Will you be watching? pic.twitter.com/N1z0t9jGKI

— Lockheed Martin Space (@LMSpace) December 11, 2022

The Artemis I mission — an uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — came to a momentous end as NASA's Orion spacecraft made a successful ocean splashdown. https://t.co/7fQ8pbSgCS pic.twitter.com/bXjNmnLwks

— CNN International (@cnni) December 11, 2022