NASA says the around-the-moon flight in November 2024 is on track, but follow-on lunar landing in late 2025 faces challenges.
NASA's four Artemis 2 astronauts this week got their first look at the Orion capsule that will carry them around the moon next year. The astronauts said seeing the hardware firsthand — and meeting the men and women building the spacecraft — brought home the reality of their historic mission.
The Artemis 2 crew, standing in front of their Orion spacecraft, discusses their planned 2024 around-the-moon flight with reporters at the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen., but their visit to the Kennedy Space Center Monday and Tuesday was their first chance to see their spacecraft.
The current schedule shows Wiseman and company launching in November 2024. They will not orbit or land on the moon, but instead will put the Orion capsule through its paces during three orbits of Earth, including one with a high point of 38,000 miles, before heading out on a free-return trajectory around the moon and back to a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
"We were at Starbase a couple of weeks ago, and really spent some time going through their major milestones to the Artemis 3 mission, which includes a transfer mission as well as the uncrewed demo," he said."We'll look at that and update around that in the near future. But what we're holding all the contractors to is that December of '25 date."
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