NASA's Orion Returns To Earth After 25-Day JourneyAround The Moon

NASA's Orion space capsule splashed down on the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and made a safe return to Earth after completing a moon mission.

Orion covered an orbit of over 1.4 million miles around the moon as part of NASA's Artemis I mission.

The Orion space capsule flew nearly 270,000 miles from Earth and made the record of spending the longest time in space without docking to a space station.

After Orion's safe return, Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager said, "With splashdown, we have successfully operated Orion in the deep space environment, where it exceeded our expectations, and demonstrated that Orion can withstand extreme conditions of returning through Earth's atmosphere from lunar velocities."

The Orion broke the record for distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans and was tested by NASA in the harsh environments of deep space.

The main goal of NASA's this mission was to test Orion's heat shield, AFP reported.