Artemis I is the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: - The Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket an
Artemis I is the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system:
– The Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
It is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond, reports NASA.
During this flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft launched on the most powerful rocket in the world and traveling thousands of miles beyond the Moon, has gone farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, all over the course of about a three-week mission.
The ship is traveling 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will have stayed in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.
“This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next Orion flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission”.
All credit to: NASA.gov
