Next up is Artemis 2 in 2024, if all goes to plan.
"Artemis 1 and Orion have been phenomenal," Nujoud Merancy, chief of the exploration mission planning office at NASA's Johnson Space Center, told Space.com in a video interview.
Orion was tasked with flying around the moon to collect data for future crewed missions and so the mission has been performing so well, with only"The whole point [and] purpose of this mission was to validate that we designed the rocket and the spacecraft right, and it's exceeding expectations to the point we were actually adding objectives with Orion," Merancy added.
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