US EditionSpecial interview: Artemis II Mission to send astronauts around the moon in historic crewed flight
Artemis II will test NASA's new Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft with four astronauts on a 10-day mission covering 685,000 miles beyond the Moon's far side.
- NASA begins a 50-hour countdown on Monday, March 30, for the Artemis II mission, marking the first time humans have traveled beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years.
- This 10-day mission serves as the first crewed test of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, validating critical systems for future lunar missions and Mars exploration.
- NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, alongside Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, comprise the crew who will manually operate the spacecraft in deep space.
- Chief Engineering Flight Controller Eduardo García Llama leads a team of 70 at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, providing recommendations if the crew encounters technical problems.
- The White House cites a desire to prevent China from gaining the upper hand in lunar exploration, while NASA describes the mission as a "historic" step toward establishing permanent presence beyond Earth.
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As part of the Artemis program, NASA plans to launch a manned mission around the Moon on Wednesday, April 1.
Video - More than fifty years after the first step on the Moon, the US Space Agency launches the Artemis-2 mission. Takeoff scheduled from 1 April.
Eduardo García Llama, NASA mission engineer to the Moon: ‘There are two moments when our hearts will be in our mouths’
If the four astronauts on the Artemis 2 mission to the Moon encounter a problem, it’s highly likely it will end up in the inbox of physicist and aerospace engineer Eduardo García Llama, 54. The full title of this native of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia is as long as it is important: Chief Engineering Flight Controller for Guidance, Control, and Proximity and Docking Operations Systems. This means that when things go wrong on board, it’s his t…
The astronauts will travel around the Moon for ten days. The launch is currently scheduled for April 1.
Artemis II will be the first manned flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The launch is expected to take place in early April in the USA. Alexandre Griveau will be at the first lodges.
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