The agency hopes to launch the epic moon mission 11 days later, on Aug. 29.
. It will stay there for several weeks, then get a gravity assist from the moon for the journey back to Earth.
The spacecraft has three primary goals on Artemis 1, each of them designed to showcase endurance. Mission team members want Orion to show it can come back through Earth's atmosphere safely, can work consistently in a"flight environment" from launch to splashdown, and can keep astronauts safe inside during the retrieval after coming back home.
Outreach activities, like taking selfies of its solar panels, will attempt to keep the public engaged for the long journey . For example:"When we get to the point where we're actually the furthest away that any human-rated spacecraft ever been, further than any of the
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