The US space agency Nasa is all set to bring home its Orion capsule.

Axar.az reports the spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California.

Uncrewed for this test flight, the capsule is expected to carry astronauts on its next outing, assuming everything works as planned in the coming hours.

The parachute-assisted drop into the sea should occur at about 09:40 local time (17:40 GMT).

The exercise is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, a quest to take people back to the lunar surface later this decade.

Fittingly, Sunday marks exactly 50 years since this feat was last achieved by the crew of Apollo 17.