Watch the next major phase of NASA's Artemis 1 Moon mission start here at 4:52PM ET

The next major phase of NASA's Artemis 1 mission is slated to start today . Orion is scheduled to conduct a burn at 4:52PM ET that will take it into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The uncrewed spacecraft will be around 50,000 miles above the lunar surface and it will travel around the Moon in the opposite direction that the Moon orbits the Earth (hence the "retrograde" aspect of this phase). NASA says that, due to the size of the orbit, it will take Orion six days to go halfway arou...