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The Artemis programme, NASA’s new moon mission
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Recently NASA rolled out its Artemis I moon mission to the launch pad for testing at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States.
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About NASA’s Artemis mission:
- NASA’s Artemis mission is touted as the next generation of lunar exploration, and is named after the twin sister of Apollo from Greek mythology.
- Artemis is also the goddess of the moon.
- NASA's Artemis program aims to put astronauts on the moon's South Pole in 2024.
- The program is part of an international effort to build a sustainable human presence on the lunar surface
- Artemis I is the first of NASA’s deep space exploration systems.
- It is an uncrewed space mission where the spacecraft will launch on SLS, the most powerful rocket in the world.
- It will travel 2,80,000 miles from the earth for over four to six weeks during the course of the mission.
- The Orion spacecraft is going to remain in space without docking to a space station, longer than any ship for astronauts has ever done before.
- The SLS rocket has been designed for space missions beyond the low-earth orbit and can carry crew or cargo to the moon and beyond.
- The learnings from the Artemis programme will be utilised to send the first astronauts to Mars.
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