he Artemis I mission is planned to launch on 3 September, and Thomas Zurbuchen at NASA is excited, nervous and looking ahead to future lunar exploration
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at Kennedy Space Center in FloridaThe Artemis I mission marks the beginning of a new era of human exploration for NASA. Whileof the Space Launch System rocket will not be crewed, Artemis II will take astronauts around the moon. The third Artemis flight will take humans back to the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
When you go to Artemis IV through VII, of course we’re working on those, but on a timescale of 10 years, let’s say, or 15 years, there are a lot of variables that will adjust. The question is, how many large launchers will we have? There’s one large launcher sitting on the pad – are there going to be others? How many in the private sector? How many internationally?
It’s a lot harder. There are a lot of problems. First of all, this is the first journey, and I actually believe that the risk for Orion is higher than the risk for the rocket. Bringing Orion back is going to be as big a challenge as getting off Earth.Frankly, I sat through 11-plus hours of system reviews so I looked at every one of the risks that are there.
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