NASA is set to launch the first moon rocket in its Artemis program Monday morning, the primary step in a complex series of missions aimed at enabling further human exploration of the moon and eventually, Mars. Here's what to know about the launch!
Five decades after NASA's last manned lunar mission, its Artemis program seeks to establish a presence on the moon to prepare for missions to Mars. morning, the primary step in a complex series of missions aimed at enabling further human exploration of the moon and eventually, Mars.
The mission, dubbed Artemis I, will send an unmanned capsule on a 42-day trip around the moon before splashing down back into the Pacific Ocean. The operation will launch the first of the Space Launch Systems program.Artemis I's main priority: testing Orion's new heat shield as it reenters Earth's atmosphere at 25,000 mph. The capsule will have to survive the fiery descent during the process that will likely become one of the fastest reentries to date.
If all goes according to plan with the 322-foot rocket, an Artemis II mission will do roughly the same, but with astronauts. Then, Artemis III aims to put two astronauts on the lunar surface sometime after 2025 – all part of NASA's program to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.The giant SLS rocket is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. It will cost taxpayers $4.
Atop the rocket will be an Orion space capsule carrying special mannequins – Moonkin Campos, Helga and Zohar – to collect data on the stresses the mission will place on future astronauts. About eight hours after liftoff, the spacecraft will leave Earth's orbit and begin the 250,000 mile trip to the moon. If all goes well, it will orbit the moon for more than a month before returning to Earth and splashing down off San Diego.
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