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The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on the mission it has been working on for 10 years, will push the button today and send the new spacecraft Artemis to space.
Between the United States and the Soviet Union space Ay, the most important front of the half, is on target again after many years.
NASA It returns to the Moon after about 50 years. The mission that the space agency has been working on for 10 years will set out to reach the only satellite of our planet today.
The spacecraft, known as the Space Launch System – SLS (Space Launch System), will carry the Orion capsule into orbit of the Moon.
The last crewed moon landing took place nearly 50 years ago as part of the Apollo 17 mission.
IT WILL BE LAUNCHED AT 15:33
SLS will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 08:33 local time (3:33 PM Turkish time).
The SLS is NASA’s most powerful instrument to date. The Orion capsule is being sent to complete a 42-day mission to and around the Moon and will complete its first mission by landing in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on October 10.
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The primary goal is to bring humans back to the lunar surface after 50 years. But it’s not just that; NASA has already set its sights far further, towards Mars.
Astronaut Randy Bresnik said, “This is Artemis “Everything we do with flight I is to reduce the risk on a crewed Artemis II flight.”
Weather in Florida is pretty uncertain this time of year. However, it is predicted that 80 percent of Monday morning hours will provide the desired weather conditions.
Project Artemis has a different purpose than Project Apollo. This time, with a base to be established on the Moon, it is aimed that human beings will stay there permanently.
NOT LAUNCHED IN RAIN WEATHER
If the flight spreads to the next hours due to technical problems, this rate drops to 60 percent. Launching Artemis in rainy weather is not approved.
NASA had promised to return with the Artemis program, using new technologies for the Moon mission. (Artemis is believed to be the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo and the Goddess of the Moon.)
The agency thinks that returning to the Moon will pave the way for sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, making the process easier. SLS and Orion have been in the works for over 10 years.
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More than $20 billion has been spent on each to date. Orion had once orbited Earth on a test flight in 2014.
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