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Artemis I Launches to the Moon (Official NASA Recap)

By |2024-04-03T12:09:04-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s Artemis I mission lifted off on Nov. 16, 2022 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B. This video includes highlights from the event. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the Space Launch System (SLS), is NASA’s most powerful rocket. It will send the uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon, 280,000 miles from Earth, farther [...]

Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission

By |2024-04-03T12:08:54-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Artemis I reached the halfway point of its 26-day mission around the Moon, flying roughly 270,000 miles (434,000 km) from the Earth—farther from our home planet than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has gone before. From Artemis I's launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to [...]

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