7 Things We Learned From NASA’s Wildly Successful Artemis 1 Mission NASA’s Artemis 1 mission concluded with Orion’s immaculate splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Seemingly a billion years — and most assuredly a few billion dollars — in the making, the mission ended far too quickly for space junkies like me. But in those short few weeks, it managed to nail all its primary objectives. Artemis 1 was strictly meant as a demonstration mission, a way for NASA to test its new SLS megarocket and Orion spacecraft. It’s still early days, but the mission appears to have been...