The Orion spacecraft has reached the end of its flight on the Artemis I mission, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the Baja Coast near Guadalupe Island at 12:40 PM EST (17:40 UTC) on Sunday, Dec. 11.
Final in-flight development test objectives were completed on Saturday, Dec. 10, and the fifth and penultimate return trajectory correction burn was executed to continue aligning the spacecraft for its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere at the right angle to land at the intended location.