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Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission

By |2024-04-03T12:08:54-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Artemis I reached the halfway point of its 26-day mission around the Moon, flying roughly 270,000 miles (434,000 km) from the Earth—farther from our home planet than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has gone before. From Artemis I's launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to [...]

Artemis I Recovery Teams Prepare for Splashdown

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(Dec. 5, 2022) Recovery teams prepare for the splashdown of Orion on Dec. 11, 2022, off the coast of San Diego, California. The spacecraft will complete its 25.5-day mission by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, where it will be recovered by teams aboard the USS Portland.

Artemis I Rocket Camera Footage of Ascent

By |2024-04-03T00:09:15-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Description: Recent Artemis I footage captured by rocket cameras during ascent aboard the Artemis I spacecraft. Footage includes live recordings of Artemis I’s Booster Separation, and Artemis I’s Booster Jettison.

Artemis I FD15 Orion Moon

By |2024-04-03T00:09:11-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

art001m1013340036 (Nov. 30, 2022) On flight day 15 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continued in its distant retrograde orbit beyond the Moon, capturing a video of the Moon from a camera on one of its solar arrays.

Artemis – Gateway – Artemis IV – Solar Arrays

By |2024-04-03T00:09:10-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Gateway space station hosts the Orion spacecraft and SpaceX's deep space logistics spacecraft in a polar orbit around the Moon, supporting scientific discovery on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission.

Artemis I FD 15: Earth Snapshot

By |2024-04-03T00:09:09-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

On flight day 15 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continued in its distant retrograde orbit beyond the Moon, capturing a snapshot of Earth from a camera on one of its solar arrays.

Artemis – Gateway – Artemis IV – Gateway Landscape

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The Gateway space station hosts the Orion spacecraft and SpaceX's deep space logistics spacecraft in a polar orbit around the Moon, supporting scientific discovery on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission.

Artemis I Launch (Press Site)

By |2024-04-03T00:09:06-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop launches the agency’s Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16 from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Moon rocket and spacecraft lifted off at 1:47 a.m. ET. The Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s [...]

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