NASA on Future of Manual Control in Spaceflight

NASA on Future of Manual Control in Spaceflight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA Astronaut Victor Glover will be the first person to manually fly the Orion spacecraft when he and his crewmates launch their Artemis II mission. The two demonstrations planned at the beginning and end of his 10-day flight would put him in league with Apollo astronauts who manually controlled a spacecraft built to take humanity to the moon and back. But the manual element of today’s Artemis program—and any future space a…