NASA’s Artemis II mission is entering its final preparation stages, marking the first time in over 50 years that a crewed spacecraft will travel toward the Moon. The mission will carry four astronauts on a 10-day journey to test the Orion spacecraft’s life-support and communication systems. This flight is a critical precursor to future lunar landings, aimed at validating the technology and safety protocols required for long-duration deep-space exploration and establishing a permanent human presence on the lunar surface.
- Artemis II is the first crewed flight of NASA’s Artemis program and the first lunar mission with a crew since 1972.
- The crew consists of four astronauts: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen.
- The mission is scheduled to last approximately ten days, utilizing a trajectory that loops around the Moon without landing.
- The flight will test the performance of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft in a crewed environment.
- Successful completion of this mission is a mandatory requirement before NASA proceeds with the Artemis III mission, which aims to land humans on the lunar surface.
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Is it a coincidence that we’re going when we’re at another injust war?Trump is trying to distract his people from the war they protest. Look back at the Vietnam war and the fist moon landing.
I am sitting back to see if they can land on the Moon.
Once again, with BBC help to promoted the great American going up to the moon.
Common sense, almost 40 Trillions in debt, war with Russia and Iran still on going !! Now they are going to the moon. Someone is laughing all the way to the bank again. Bloody corrupted system and able to make the politicians rich.
To blast off at the moon 😂😂
For all Americankind 😅
Ahh…Artemis! You little thought!
I have the high ground. Don’t do it Anakin.
Don't go ballistic on Iran
Best of luck NASA
Quite surprising that you didn’t mention there are no plans to land on the moon with this mission
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Money should be spent to stop homelessness and the hunger crisis in the country. It shouldn't be spent for pencil pushers that want to draw territorial claims in space.
USA USA USA 😂
This is like moon 10.0 we been there so many times its booooooring..
39 trillion in debt, no national healthcare, funds removed from cancer research, billions removed from climate change initiatives ( including clean renewable energy ) and oh yes we are at war and requesting more money from congress ( as if they don't have enough ). No we should not be using tax payers money to go to the moon. And yes .. 200 billion is actually alot of money just so we can keep up with a successful wealthy China.
April fool ha ha
Might as well. Not gonna be much rocket fuel about soon.
We Americans don't have the NHS or any other kind of universal healthcare.
If we stopped making wars & taxed millionaires & billionaires more we could have universal healthcare & fund more science.
Imagine how much low income housing could have been built with that 93 billion…
And what's the point of this? 😂
Namaskar ji
All the people, likes competition and congratulations not critical crisis, instead.
Great time to leave this benighted planet.
I still think the 1969 moon landing was fake considering the low tech that time. If they did, going to the moon should be like travelling to nearby town by now.
I think this kind of activity is just a make usa just for political weakness in the world to achieve it again
Brilliant, the first time ever man will set foot on the moon…
Well I suppose it keeps a few people in a job 🤭
I hope they find oil.
April 1st, huh? Way to pick the date NASA.
They've not even found the weapons of mass destruction yet 😂🤣
What if they departure for moon and find moon has located somewhere else.
There's a none zero chance that humans have never been to the moon.
JFK assassination was the pilot that proved to them the 'm' in the masses is silent.
9/11 arguably takes the cake, but we've long been checkmated.
The news we want to hear. To me moon and beyond
We are so back, godspeed!
93 billion?? What a waste of tax payers money !!
😂😂😂😂😂 ok
Absolute nonsense
These media coverages are all about empty hype and no long term expansion of humanity in space. There's an appetite going there because China told they will. A politically driven BS and not purely about science, R&D or exploration.
We never went to the moon
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When are people going to learn UN Treaties don't mean anything.
Looks like an April Fools Day joke
Going back to the moon 😂 really. I am thinking Stanley Kubrick, dodgy photos and Capricorn 1.
Please let everything go well. 🙏
No bubbles.
I'm surprised most of the comments here are normal, especially since us Brits love to find something to complain about. A nice bit of positivity for once!
As long as they don’t bring back Sequids… all’s good.
* Tax The Billionaires *
To anybody asking “why spend money going to space when we have problems here?”
Space exploration is how you ended up with the phone you’re watching this video on, the laser surgery some have already been through to see properly, the air purification filters on your plane and living room, the carbon fiber supercar or airplane that cut your travel from a 2 stop, to a nonstop trip for $50…we owe too much of our current technology to space exploration.
Get some water for 93 billions…