00:00And here you are looking at a live view of the Orion spacecraft from the solar array wing with the
00:08moon in the distance of the screen, the Earth in the distant frame of the screen and the moon up
00:16close.
00:16Again, we are now less than 2,000 miles away from the moon, but over 200,000 miles away from
00:23planet Earth.
00:30Orion started its journey five days ago from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it launched aboard the Space
00:38Launch System.
00:41Orion has been traveling to the moon ever since, performing checkouts of its systems, as this is an uncrewed test
00:48flight.
00:50It's critical that NASA tests out the hardware and systems aboard Orion, ahead of flying a crew onboard Artemis II.
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