Artemis I FD Rick LaBrode

Date: 11-25-2022
Location: Bldg 30, WFCR
Subject: Artemis-1 flight controllers during Orion Distant Retrograde Insertion.
Photographer: James Blair

(jsc2022e089777) (Nov.25, 2022) During flight day 10 of the of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Lead Flight Director Rick LaBrode has a thumbs up as he monitors the progress of the Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn. The Distant Retrograde Orbit Insertion (DRI) burn, inserted Orion into a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) where at it's furthest distance Orion will be nearly 270,000 miles from Earth.