NASA’s Artemis-1 mission is a “very complex project”, Space Industry Association of Australia CEO James Brown says.
NASA is set to launch its first mission to the Moon since the Apollo missions on Monday between 8.33am and 10.33am local time with the unmanned Artemis-1 rocket.
Mr Brown said the project involves parts from Japan and Europe and a whole range of international partners. “It is very exciting to know that in potentially just under 10 hours we will be seeing the first of these missions,” he told Sky News Australia.
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