Later this month, NASA will open the launch window for the Artemis I mission — the first step toward returning humans to the moon. Mike Sarafin is the mission manager for Artemis, joins us to discuss the project.
This first mission won’t have a crew. But it will have a giant rocket called the Space Launch System. It’s taller than the Statue of Liberty and can carry a payload of 59,000 pounds to the moon. That’s equivalent to six to nine African elephants.
If I have this right, our last manned or crewed mission to the moon was in 1972, but we have had unmanned or uncrewed landings since then. Is that right? It'll be monitoring the dynamic loads and environments in the cockpit, during the launch and landing phases, as well as gathering radiation baseline data as we head out through the Earth's magnetic field, through the Van Allen radiation belts and into the deep space environment.
A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022.A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022.We're gonna use that, not only to be smarter about the environment and the risks that our astronauts are gonna be taking, but we're actually gonna be exploring different regions of the moon eventually, starting with Artemis.
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