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America's Next Moon Mission Depends on Elon Musk, for Better or Worse
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America's next moon mission depends on Elon Musk, for better or worse
Elon Musk has long been in an on-again, off-again relationship with the moon. Though just last year he called it “a distraction”—saying his focus was shifting exclusively to Mars—he now seems to be rekindling things with our natural satellite. And regardless of his own feelings about the moon, NASA is paying him to get us there again. The Artemis II mission, which returned just a week ago, set a new record for the farthest humans have ever trave…
The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will leave the landing momentarily to become a test flight in low Earth orbit. The crew will take off in the Orion capsule on the NASA SLS rocket and will test encounter and coupling maneuvers with the commercial lunar descent modules developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin. This orbital test will test life support systems, communications and propulsion of the coupled ship, preparing the ground for the ac…
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