US EditionArtemis II Flight Day 2: Crew Remains in Earth’s Orbit Ahead of Outbound Journey
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The special envoy of EL PAÍS Nuño Dominguez tells the details of the takeoff and the plans of the crew for the second day
Artemis II's four astronauts woke up on Thursday, April 2, within the Orion spacecraft, after taking off on Wednesday, to dedicate their first day of mission to orbiting the Earth before embarking on their journey to the Moon, which would take another four days. NASA's ground crew woke up crew members with the Young & Sick band's Sleepyhead song at 7:06 a.m. in the east of the United States, "after a brief rest period," almost 12 hours after the…
Artemis II flight day 2: Crew remains in Earth’s orbit ahead of outbound journey
After a successful rocket launch at Cape Canaveral, NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program continued making strides on Thursday, while in the elliptical orbit around Earth.
After yesterday, April 1, the world’s most powerful rocket made Florida vibrate, the Orion capsule already successfully sails to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis II Mission. Currently, the ship is in a high Earth orbit performing critical system testing. However, in the next few hours, the engines will be turned on for the Trans-Lunar Injection, the impulse that will launch them directly to the Moon in a four-day journey.
Just a day after its spectacular takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Artemis II mission has begun to rewrite the history books. On April 2, 2026, the four crew members aboard the NASA Orion capsule achieved an impressive record in Earth orbit, reaching an altitude of almost 70,400 kilometers before embarking on their definitive journey to the Moon. This milestone marks the greatest distance at which a manned ship has orbited ou…
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