Artemis II Day 4: Manual Flight in Deep Space, Lunar Flyby Preparations, Easter Message

Artemis II Day 4: Manual Flight in Deep Space, Lunar Flyby Preparations, Easter Message

HOUSTON—NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen became the first people in more than 50 years to manually fly a spacecraft in deep space. Hansen took the pilot seat on the Orion spacecraft Integrity just after 9 p.m. ET on April 4. Koch first took the position to her crewmate’s right, and then swapped roles with him more than 10 minutes later. Flying more than two-thirds of their journey from the Earth to …

Artemis II crew successfully conduct manual piloting demo on flight day 4

New Delhi: On flight day four of the Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the crew successfully conducted a manual piloting demonstration. Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen took turns controlling the brand new Orion spaceship, to understand how it handles and performs in deep space. The two evaluated different thruster mods, six degrees of freedom, and three degrees of freedom to provide engineers with data on the piloting capabili…