You can watch the action live on Thursday, when NASA's Artemis 1 is scheduled to leave lunarorbit.
The engine burn is scheduled to take place on Thursday at 4:54pm. The capsule will leave Earth's atmosphere and travel to the moon, where it will return to Earth.
NASA will provide live coverage of the event. The time is 2200 hours. You can watch it live at Space.com or on the space agency's website.
There are amazing views of the Artemis 1 moon rocket debut.
NASA's Artemis 1 mission kicked off with the launch of the Space Launch System rocket.
Artemis 1 is the first flight in NASA's Artemis program which aims to establish a crewed base near the moon's south pole by the end of the 2020s.
A shakeout cruise is a way to show that both vehicles are ready to carry humans into deep space. If the current mission goes well, Artemis 2 will send astronauts around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 will go to the moon a year or so later.
The SLS did its job on Nov. 16th, and since then, Orion has been checking off boxes. The DRO was achieved with an engine burn on Nov. 25 and is one of the most important accomplishments of the mission.
The Artemis 1 team held a meeting to determine if or not Orion was ready to leave DRO and the result was unanimous.
During a press conference on Wednesday evening, Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said that all of the mission management team members wanted to return to the Earth.
It will be his last day in DRO on Thursday. The capsule won't land on its home planet until December, but it will still have some space flying ahead of it.
The craft will splash down in the ocean off the coast of California. The recovery operation that will wrap up the Artemis 1 mission will be practiced by NASA and the U.S. navy.
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