Can you find the Easter eggs hidden inside Nasa’s Orion spaceship?

By Dean Murray via SWNS

How's this for an out-of-this-world quiz? NASA has placed puzzles through the interior of their Orion spacecraft.

The module, which is currently in space as a test-run for the next moon landing, has so-called Easter eggs dotted throughout the cabin.

Seated in the module is Commander Moonikin Campos, a sensor-packed mannequin collecting data to help future Artemis mission astronauts.

But elsewhere are weird symbols, numbers, pictures and even a soft toy.

In the Orion capsule is Morse code that translates to Charlie and the Artemis I zero-gravity indicator, an astronaut Snoopy toy. 1969 Apollo 10's Lunar Module was called Snoopy, and the Command and Service Module was nicknamed Charlie Brown. (NASA via SWNS)

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NASA has got online science fans puzzling over what could be hidden in plain sight - and trying to decipher what they all mean.

The space agency has said they will reveal answers on Saturday, a day ahead of Orion's expected splashdown back on Earth.

They commented: "Can you find the “extras” inside Orion’s cabin? We have a few puzzles with hidden meanings. Take your best guess and we’ll reveal the list on December 10!"

Expanding further, NASA noted: "By Easter eggs, we mean fun puzzles, hidden messages, and visual references to spot."

Here's the best guesses so far on what the puzzles are and what they could mean:

• A red bird-like symbol is either an eagle, a reference to the Eagle, the Lunar Module that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon's surface, or refers to the Phoenix Mars Lander, which landed on Mars on May 25, 2008.
• Snoopy soft toy, is the Artemis I mission's zero-gravity indicator, astronaut Snoopy. 1969 Apollo 10's Lunar Module was called Snoopy, and the Command and Service Module was nicknamed Charlie Brown.
• Morse code that translates to Charlie. Likely placed in tandem with the astronaut Snoopy toy to refer to the 1969 Apollo 10 Command and Service Module nicknamed Charlie Brown.
• Retro NASA logotype known as the "worm" or "the meatball." In 1992, the 1970s brand was retired - except on clothing and other souvenir items - in favor of the original late 1950s graphic.
• A yellow label with the letters CBAGF, thought to be the first five notes of the song “Fly Me To The Moon.”
• Numbers on the capsule interior, hard to decipher, but might read "1 31 32 33 34 39 41 45 46 47 49". This has had people stumped, but may refer to co-ordinates.
• Orion features the so-called "Callisto payload,"a technology demonstration of voice-activated audio and video technology from Lockheed Martin in collaboration with Amazon and Cisco. The blue circle may reference the HAL 9000 computer from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, although that had a red light in a circle.
• The meaning of a black and white shape pattern is unknown. One online guess thought it was binary code: "Binary 10010 to decimal is 18. The 18 Artemis astronauts?", while another said they "look like piano keys, could be the music notes used in Close Encounters?.'"