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NASA launched its next-generation rocket Wednesday morning on a crewless voyage around the moon, half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era.
The much-delayed launch kicked off Apollo’s successor program, Artemis, aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface and eventually establishing a sustainable lunar base as a stepping stone to future human exploration of Mars.
Named after the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt – and Apollo’s twin sister – Artemis aims to return astronauts to the moon’s surface as early as 2025.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised the rocket launch, calling it “the next step.”
The Artemis I mission will see the Orion spacecraft on a 25-day flight that will bring the capsule within 97 kilometres of the lunar surface before flying 64,400 kilometres beyond the moon and looping back to Earth. The capsule is expected to splash down on Dec. 11.
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The much-delayed launch kicked off Apollo’s successor program, Artemis, aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface and eventually establishing a sustainable lunar base as a stepping stone to future human exploration of Mars.
Named after the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt – and Apollo’s twin sister – Artemis aims to return astronauts to the moon’s surface as early as 2025.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised the rocket launch, calling it “the next step.”
The Artemis I mission will see the Orion spacecraft on a 25-day flight that will bring the capsule within 97 kilometres of the lunar surface before flying 64,400 kilometres beyond the moon and looping back to Earth. The capsule is expected to splash down on Dec. 11.
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