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NASA's Artemis II to Roll Out to Launch Pad Within Two Weeks
NASA prepares for Artemis II crewed lunar flyby by rolling out integrated Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B for crucial tests.
- Shortly, NASA will roll the integrated Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B for a wet dress rehearsal, after stacking Orion with its launch abort system in the Vehicle Assembly Building and completing a dry dress rehearsal in December.
- To validate critical systems, NASA is running verification tests focused on life-support and docking, addressing Orion spacecraft's heat shield wear seen after Artemis I to ensure crew safety.
- Over the course of several days, Orion will traverse 238,900 miles looping the Moon with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a roughly 10-day mission, conducting lunar science and biomedical experiments.
- A successful wet dress rehearsal would position Artemis II for an early 2026 launch window, with NASA identifying February 6, 2026, as a possible earliest date and the mission testing the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.
- Beyond a single flight, Artemis II is designed to pave the way for sustained lunar operations and future Mars missions, marking the first crewed flight beyond near-Earth orbit since Apollo 1972 amid geopolitical competition.
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More than half a century after the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, NASA completes the preparations for the Artemis II mission, the first scheduled manned mission of the Orion spacecraft. Artemis 2 will be manned by four astronauts (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen). In this context, NASA has launched the initiative "Send your name with Artemis" ("Send your name with Artemis"). Anyone, regardl…
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