NASA’s new moon rocket is ready for a crucial test flight on Monday. The Artemis I mission is a turning point for NASA and the space industry. It is the first step towards the future of space exploration. The Artemis 1 mission is set to take a significant step toward returning humans to the Moon after a gap of half a century. The spacecraft is scheduled to travel to the Moon, deploy a few small satellites, and then put them into orbit.
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is set to propel an uncrewed capsule called Orion around the Moon on a six-week test flight on Monday.
Artemis 1 is considered the most powerful rocket engine ever built, even more powerful than Apollo’s Saturn V system, which took astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and ’70s.
Artemis 1 Artemis is the first step towards 3, resulting in the first manned mission to the Moon in the 21st century and the first since 1972. Artemis 1 is an unmanned test flight.
Artemis 2, which is due to launch a few years after that, will have astronauts on board. It will also be an orbital mission, much like Apollo 8, which orbited the Moon and came back home. Astronauts will spend more time orbiting the Moon and testing everything out with a human crew.
Through this mission, NASA The goal is to land the first woman on the lunar surface by 2025. The last humans to walk on the Moon were the two-man descent team of Apollo 17 in 1972, following in the footsteps of 10 other astronauts during the earlier five missions. With Apollo 11 in 1969.
And, eventually, it will lead to a trip to the surface of the Moon in which Artemis 3 – sometime mid-decade – will rendezvous with the SpaceX starship and transfer crew.
The spacecraft will travel 40,000 miles on the far side of the Moon. The capsule is expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean in October.
About Artemis-1 launch schedule
NASA officials said Sunday that all systems appeared to “go” for liftoff, and weather forecasters called for an 80% chance of favorable conditions on top of Monday’s two-hour launch window, which peaked at 8:33 a.m. Starting at 6 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. on Monday). ), reduced to 60% at the end of that period.
If the countdown goes off for some reason, NASA has set September 2 and September 5 as possible backup launch dates.
Where to see Artemis-1 on the Moon?
You can track all the developments related to the first launch of NASA’s Artemis project on the official website of the US space agency or its social media handles.
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