- NASA’s Space Launch SystemRocket Lifted offLaunching the Orion capsule for its first moon mission on Wednesday early in the morning
- Orion and the SLS rocket have gone through rigorous testing to ensure that they are ready to fly.
- The mission Artemis 1This is an uncrewed flight test that astronauts must pass before they can fly in future missions.
NASA’s first giant moon rocket, since Apollo missions, roared past Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The maiden voyage of the ship.
The mission is called Artemis IThe Orion spaceship will orbit the moon and return. It is the first of three flights intended to land humans on the Moon. For the first time since 1972, the surface of the moon has been visible. NASA will eventually use the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to establish a permanent lunar base.
Bill Nelson, NASA’s administrator said that this is the Artemis Generation at a press briefing held on August 3. “We were in Apollo, but this new generation, this new type of astronaut, is what we are.” To all of you who look up at the Moon, dreaming about the day that humankind will return to its lunar surface, folks, it’s here. We’re going back, and that journey, our return, starts with Artemis I.
NASA’s ambitious 21st-century lunar campaign will require powerful, advanced space hardware. This includes the SLS mega-rocket and its boosters as well as the core stage and high-tech crew vehicle, Orion. This is how NASA constructed these incredible pieces of equipment.
