Update for Dec. 11, 4:30 pm ET: NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down today, Dec. 11, and appears in good shape as recovery teams work to retrieve the spacecraft. You can see NASA's recovery teams at work above without commentary. It is expected to take up to 6 hours to get Orion inside its recovery ship. Read our full splashdown story. 

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft will return to Earth on Sunday (Dec. 11) after nearly a month in space, and you can watch the homecoming live. 

Artemis 1's uncrewed Orion capsule is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California Sunday around 12:40 p.m. EST (1740 GMT). 

You can watch live coverage of Orion's reentry here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency(opens in new tab). Coverage will start at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT). 

Orion launched atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Nov. 16, kicking off the highly anticipated Artemis 1 mission. 

The capsule slipped into lunar orbit on Nov. 25, then left on Dec. 1. Four days later, Orion fired its main engine in a 3.5-minute burn — its longest of the mission — during a close lunar flyby to head back to its home planet.