It is the most powerful rocket engine ever flown to space, even more powerful than Apollo’s Saturn V system that took astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and ‘70s.
This is a “heavy lift” vehicle, as NASA refers to it. How does Artemis 1 differ from the other rockets being launched routinely?Īrtemis 1 is the first flight of the new Space Launch System. The Conversation asked Jack Burns, a professor and space scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and former member of the Presidential Transition Team for NASA, to describe the mission, explain what the Artemis program promises to do for space exploration, and reflect on how the space program has changed in the half-century since humans last set foot on the lunar surface. NASA aims to practice operating the spacecraft, test the conditions crews will experience on and around the Moon, and assure everyone that the spacecraft and any occupants can safely return to Earth. The spacecraft is scheduled to travel to the Moon, deploy some small satellites and then settle into orbit. 29, 2022, but was postponed three times, twice for technical reasons and once for Hurricane Ian. The launch was initially scheduled for the morning of Aug. The mission is a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The journey to the Moon and back is a shakedown cruise with no people aboard – it will test how the Orion Crew Capsule holds up in space. The rocket carried the Orion Crew Capsule as the centerpiece of the Artemis 1 mission. NASA’s Space Launch System rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of Nov.
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