The Artemis 1 mission will be a crucial test of NASA's next generation rocket
NASA’s"mega moon rocket" is now scheduled to make its third liftoff attempt on Sept. 27, the US space agency has announced.
But technical difficulties foiled the rocket’s first two attempts at liftoff. NASA scrubbed the rocket's first attempt because engineers were unable to cool one of the rocket's four core stage RS-25 engines down to a safe temperature in time for liftoff. The agency announced that it had fixed the problem, which it blamed on a faulty temperature sensor.
Orion is planned to make two fly-bys of the moon 62 miles above the lunar surface, zipping as far out as 40,000 miles beyond the moon before returning to Earth 38 days after launch. The flight will be followed by Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 in 2024 and 2025/2026 respectively. Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a four-person human crew, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and the first person of color to land on the moon's south pole.
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