VIDEO: NASA's Artemis I mission ends with Orion capsule splashdown

NASA's Artemis I mission Orion capsule is expected to splash down off the coast of California at 12:39 p.m.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is headed back to Earth, ending its more than three-week journey around the moon and back.

The capsule, crewed by test dummies as a rehearsal for a future moon flyby with astronauts, is expected to splash down off the coast of California at 12:39 p.m. Eastern time.

Preparations were underway for the return Sunday morning, NASA's Twitter account for the spacecraft said: "Solar wings are being moved into position ahead Orion's crew module separating from the @ESA service module. We're now 10 minutes from separation. 5000 miles / 8000 km from Earth."

[umservodoAltissimo]

Look carefully at the following times: 7:38 to 7:45 (7:42 frame by frame) and 8:56 to 10:00
It seems that the shadow of a large aircraft (military helicopter?) is projected in the sky. The helicopter shovel shadows at minute 8:56 to 10:00 appear to rotate slowly, due to the low amount of FPS in the video.

[harrybaulz]

Are they using cameras from the apollo missions?

[AngelHernandez-rhwl]

Mission Control Center looks very Futuristic I’ve never been in a room that looks anything like that, god bless astronauts around the world and in the US.

[yoskarokuto]

Very far, Why not close up orion use tele and zoom ?

[richardhowlett]

Does anyone know why, if this had been traveling with outside temperatures of 3000 Celsius there wasn't any steam at splashdown? ( I genuinely want to know)

[joeconiglio]

Contract SpaceX to do the visuals. With NASA we get a lot of hype, includes sound tracks and graphics and crap for space footage. What an embarrassment. What is NASA problem. I am certainly not alone about this.