The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a video for the Artemis 1 mission today. Orion and SLS spacecrafts to be used in the mission were included in the trailer. The mission will be the first step of the Moon return missions.
While space technologies continue to develop rapidly today, NASA has officially announced that humanity will return to the Moon in the near future. Artemis I mission, which will be the first step of the return to the Moon, which will start with the Artemis missions, It will start on August 29. NASA has released a trailer-like video for this highly anticipated mission today.
The video prepared for the Artemis I mission included the spacecraft to be used in the mission. Space vehicles in the video prepared as animation, NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SYS) it was a rocket. The video released by NASA was as follows:
Artemis I mission video:
What is the Artemis I task?
Artemis I, which will be the first of the Artemis Moon missions, will be an unmanned mission. In the mission, the Orion spacecraft will be launched into space with SYS, one of the most powerful rockets ever developed. During the mission, which is planned to cover 4-6 weeks, the Orion spacecraft, It will travel 450 thousand kilometers from Earth. Orion will travel on its own without docking to any space station or vehicle, and if all goes well It will descend to Earth.
As part of the Artemis missions, the first manned mission is expected to take place before 2025. Because in the past months, NASA announced that the main target date, which was determined as 2024, was not allocated enough funds. postponed to 2025. The agency is targeting at least 10 Moon landings in the future.
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