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Artemis II Mission Is About to Fly Humans to the Moon — Here’s the Science They’ll Do
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Photo: NASA Artemis II seeks to return humans to the vicinity of the Moon more than half a century after the last lunar mission of the Apollo program. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, and would mark a new step in space exploration. The mission will last for 10 days. During that time, the crew will travel approximately 965,600 kilometers around the Moon, without landing on its surface. The journey will take astronauts beyond the hi…
Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
Alexandra Witze in Nature: If all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a journey around the Moon. The mission, known as Artemis II, would be the first time humans have left Earth’s protective environment and travelled into deep space since the US Apollo programme, which ended more than half a century ago. And it could carry its astronauts farther from Earth than any humans have ever travelled. Artemis II is one in a…
Why Artemis II Matters: The Mission That Sends Humans Around the Moon Again
A lunar flyby can sound like a partial achievement. No landing is planned. No flags will be planted. No crew member will step onto the regolith. That framing misses the point. Artemis II is the first time people will ride Orion beyond low Earth orbit, the first time a crew will fly on the Space Launch System, and the first human mission to travel toward the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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