Watch as Artemis 1's Orion capsule flies by the moon Monday morning

You can follow the Artemis 1 mission live, as it arrives in the moon's neighborhood.

Artemis 1's uncrewed Orion capsule has been cruising toward the moon since Wednesday morning.

The moon will be reached on Monday at 7:44 a.m., when it will be skimmed just 80 miles above the surface. All will go according to plan. The main engine of the capsule will be fired in a "flyby burn" four days after the close approach.

Members of the Artemis 1 team will explain and discuss the crucial maneuver during a webcast on Monday. The time is 1215GMT. You can watch it here at Space.com or via the space agency.

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A crewed research base on the moon by the end of the 2020s is one of the objectives of the Artemis 1 mission. The debut of the SLS rocket was marked by the Artemis 1 liftoff.

A crucial maneuver will be set up on November 25th, when an engine firing will attempt to insert the spaceship into a distant retrograde orbit. The capsule will remain in the DRO until December 1, when it will be sent back to Earth.

After hitting Earth's atmosphere at tremendous speeds, the spaceship will splash down in the ocean off the coast of California.

NASA will be free to start preparing for Artemis 2 if Artemis 1 goes well.

The site of the proposed research base will be near the moon's south pole. Artemis 3 will be the first crewed lunar landing since 1972 and the first time a woman and a person of color will be on the moon.

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