Humans will launch aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis II, which is currently slated for a 2024 launch.
Artemis II is currently scheduled to take place in 2024. That mission will send humans on the same trajectory as Artemis I, meaning it will go on a trip around the moon and back.
Artemis III, currently slated for 2025, will finally send humans back to the moon's surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. That mission will launch aboard SLS, though astronauts will utilize Orion to rendezvous with a currently in-development modifiedNASA's SLS Launch Abort System generates more than 40,000 pounds of thrust. According
, that is enough to lift 26 elephants off the ground. The system was designed to rapidly launch astronauts away from SLS in case of an emergency.When the launch goes as planned, however, the LAS is jettisoned into space to reduce the mass of the capsule as it makes its way into space.mission have given the world an impressive vantage point from the Orion spacecraft as it has made its way around the moon, including an image in which the moon and the Earth look like they are almost the same size.
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