If you’re too busy to understand NASA’s upcoming Artemis I mission, a new video released by the space agency explains everything you need to know in less than five minutes.
with title Artemis I: Readythe video explains why we’re heading to the moon again, and uses striking graphics to show how the carefully planned Artemis I mission is expected to play out. is showing.
NASA’s Artemis program is about a new era of space exploration aimed at sending humans back to the moon and to Mars.
The unmanned Artemis I mission is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, August 29, and will include the first flight of NASA’s Next Generation Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This is the most powerful rocket ever. First flight of the new Orion spacecraft designed specifically for deep space missions.
Orion’s journey lasts six weeks and involves a lunar flyby passing within just 62 miles of the lunar surface. Orion then returns to Earth and falls off the coast of California.
The success of Artemis I’s mission will open the way to Artemis II. Artemis II follows the same route, but with an astronaut on board. Following that, Artemis III will attempt to send the first woman and the first person of color to the Moon in a mission that could take place as early as 2025.
“The first flight of the Artemis generation, a half-million-mile journey, is about to begin,” NASA said in a comment accompanying the video. “The unmanned Artemis I mission will take off like the thunder of NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, kicking off humanity’s return to the moon. Sending people farther than any manned spacecraft ever flown, putting new systems and processes to the test, and lighting the way for crew missions to come, Artemis I is ready for departure, partners around the world. Together, we are ready to return to the Moon for Mars and beyond.”
With 8.8 million pounds of thrust blasting the 98-meter-tall SLS rocket into the sky, Monday’s launch is guaranteed to be an emotional spectacle. Watch the entire event on NASA’s livestream.
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