The Artemis moon program's first mission is underway. Sometimes the third time really is a charm.
from NASA's Orion partner the European Space Agency, which provided the service module.
"It is a new creation. It is a new rocket and a new spacecraft," NASA's Artemis 1 mission manager Mike Sarafin said before launch."This is something that has not been done in over 50 years and is incredibly difficult." At its core, the Artemis 1 mission aims to show that the SLS rocket and Orion are ready to fly astronauts to the moon as part of a sustained program of lunar exploration that will ultimately enable crewed flights to. NASA wants to use the vehicles to build a Gateway space station around the moon, then send crews there to use it as a home base for trips to the lunar south pole and other unexplored realms.
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