NASA’s Artemis I mission is complete.The Orion capsule has splashed down in the Pacific ocean off the coast of California, completing its 26-day journey to the moon and back
“the ultimate test before we put astronauts on board”. The next step is for spacecraft engineers at NASA to go through the data from the landing to make sure the capsule – especially the heat shield – held up well enough to be confident that astronauts on the Artemis II mission will be as safe as possible.. “It had to travel around the room and Orion had to come back to Earth safely before anyone would be willing to put humans onboard.
Artemis II, scheduled for 2024, is planned to be the first crewed launch of SLS and the first crewed flight of Orion. It will carry four astronauts around the moon and back, lasting about 10 days, to perform a final test of the capsule’s life support systems before what many consider to be the flagship mission of the Artemis programme, Artemis III.
Artemis III is planned for 2025, and will bring two astronauts to the moon’s surface for just over six days, including the first woman ever to walk on the moon, while two others remain in lunar orbit. In total, the mission is intended to last about 30 days.
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