Knock, knock, who’s there? Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at @NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians opened the hatch of the Orion spacecraft for the #Artemis I mission after a 1.4-million-mile (2.3-million-kilometer) journey beyond the Moon and back. Orion returned to Kennedy on Dec. 30, 2022, after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11. In this photo, a technician stands inside the crew module to remove payloads and assess the capsule. The team has removed all of the 'passengers' and zero gravity indicator, Snoopy, and moved them to labs inside one of Kennedy's processing facilities. While Artemis I did not have crew on board, the three human-like payloads — Commander Moonikin Campos, Helga, and Zohar — will help scientists and engineers understand how to best protect astronauts on future Artemis missions to the Moon. This week technicians will extract nine avionics boxes from the Orion, which will subsequently be refurbished for Artemis II, the first mission with astronauts. Contents include a video processing unit, GPS receiver, four crew module phased array antennas, and three Orion inertial measurement units. The crew seat that Commander Moonikin Campos occupied on Artemis I will also be refurbished for flight on Artemis II. In the coming months, technicians will remove hazardous commodities that remain on board. Once complete, the spacecraft will journey to @NASAGlenn’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility for abort-level acoustic vibration and other environmental testing. Image Description: The hatch for the Orion spacecraft opens to reveal the interior. A technician is wearing a blue 'bunny suit' — clean room apparel — and a white head-covering stands inside the capsule. Just outside of the hatch, a laptop rests on a pile of ziplock bags. Some of the exterior panels of the spacecraft have been removed to reveal wires and deflated airbags. Credit: @NASA #Orion #Spacecraft #LunarMission #HatchOpening #KnockKnock #STEM #Space #NASA #Moon