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Artemis Astronauts Await Green Light for Lunar Orbit
The 10-day test flight will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans in history before a planned lunar flyby.
- On Wednesday, April 1, the Artemis II mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, propelling the four-person crew into Earth orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft.
- NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover, alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are undertaking a 10-day test mission to demonstrate Orion's lunar capabilities.
- The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket generated 8.8 million pounds of thrust during liftoff, making it about 17% more powerful than the retired Saturn V.
- Reaching the moon on Monday, April 6, the crew will travel farther from Earth than any humans, surpassing the 1970 Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles.
- A planned water landing in the Pacific Ocean near California on Friday, April 10, will conclude the mission, with five orange airbags flipping the capsule upright.
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Day 1 of Artemis Ii in Space in Life: Astronauts Wake up in the Orion Spacecraft and Orbit the Earth
After more than 50 years, humanity travels back to the Moon with NASA's Artemis II mission, which after its take-off on Wednesday, April 1, prepares to turn the Earth to reach enough momentum to orbit the star. The mission is made up of four crew members: Captain Reis Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and physicist Jeremy Hansen. They will be responsible for carrying the 32-story Orion spacecraft from Earth to orbi…
NASA astronauts photograph Earth from orbit
The Artemis II mission's Orion capsule leaves Earth, backlit by the sun as a crescent, on its way to fly by the moon. Image: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters NASA's Artemis II astronauts wrapped up their first day in space by testing cameras they will use to capture dramatic images of Earth as it slowly recedes beneath them, hours before leaving orbit for the moon.
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mural.com.mxThe Orion psula that transports Artemis II mission astronauts turn on their main engine tonight, which drives it to the Moon.
The crew members of Artemis 2 have broken a first historical record this Thursday as they become the humans that have been orbiting the Earth the furthest away. The four astronauts will set the new plusmarca at almost 70,400 kilometers. NASA’s mission took off last night to the Moon at 0.35 from the Kennedy Space Center (Florida), on the first mission in 50 years to the satellite. Astronauts Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Jeremy…
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