"If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past the confines of our planet's gravity well to the Moon in over half a century. NASA is hoping to launch its Artemis 2 mission a mere two months from now - two months earlier than originally planned - by launching the four individuals on board an Orion spacecraft mounted to its enormous Space Launch System (SLS) rocket."
"And though drama has plagued the Artemis program, this next mission is starting to really come into focus. Over the weekend, for instance, NASA conducted a dress rehearsal for its scheduled February launch date. An image shows Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch dressed up in their bright orange Orion Crew Survival System suits, spacesuits that have been in the works for many years now."
Four astronauts are scheduled to fly on Artemis 2 around the Moon roughly two months from now, traveling aboard an Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket. The mission will perform a lunar flyby without landing, potentially sending crew farther from Earth than any humans since Apollo. NASA completed a countdown dress rehearsal including suit donning and ingress, with Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch participating. The SLS rocket has not yet rolled to the pad, but Orion was previously stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, and engineers are conducting final spacecraft, rocket, and ground-system preparations.
Read at Futurism
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]