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[b]Flight Day 2-5 - Outbound transit[/b] [b]Flight Day 6-9 - Transit to Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Moon[/b] [b]Flight Day 6 (11/21)[/b]: Outbound Powered Fly-by (burn 7:44 a.m.), Lunar close approach (~80 miles, 130 km) [b]Flight Day 10-15 - In DRO[/b] [b]Flight Day 10 (11/25)[/b]: DRO Insertion (burn 4:52 p.m.) [b]Flight Day 11 (11/26)[/b]: Orion passes Apollo 13 Record of 248,655 miles (400,171 km) from Earth for a spacecraft designed for humans (9:25 a.m.) [b]Flight Day 13: (11/28)[/b]: Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (4:48 p.m.) at approximately 268,554 miles (432,194 km) [b]Flight Day 16-19 - Exit DRO[/b] [b]Flight Day 16 (12/1)[/b]: DRO Departure (burn 4:53 p.m.) [b]Flight Day 20-26 - Return transit[/b] [b]Flight Day 20 (12/5)[/b]: Return Flyby (burn 11:43 a.m.), Lunar close approach (~79 miles, 128 km) [b]Flight Day 26 - Earth Return[/b] [b]Flight Day 26 (12/11)[/b]: Splashdown (1:06 p.m.)
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