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The Orion spacecraft’s thrusters ignited for the second return trajectory correction burn to fine‑tune the spacecraft’s path toward Earth. Splashdown of Artemis II is expected around 8:07pm ET on Friday, April 10 (0007 UTC on Saturday, April 11), off the coast of San Diego.

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The Artemis II mission has recently completed a return trajectory correction burn. This is when the Orion spacecraft fires its thrusters to change the spacecraft’s velocity and fine-tune the path back home to Earth.

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