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Josh Dinner

NASA just got the Orion spacecraft that will fly astronauts around the moon on Artemis 2 in 2026

A silver space capsule sits within a white service module with folded square solar panels in a white warehous.

The next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon has been delivered to the only space agency on Earth to ever successfully fly astronauts to our nearest celestial neighbor.

Orion, the capsule that will carry the Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around the moon and back, has been officially handed over to NASA. The agency took possession of Orion from the spacecraft's main contractor, Lockheed Martin, on Thursday (May 1), according to a statement from the company.

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