In this image provided by NASA, the United States of America is seen at night from a composite collected from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. NASA’s Artemis I mission will see the unmanned Orion spacecraft take off from space Kennedy. Center in Florida He spent several days in orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. (NASA)
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Toronto, Ontario – For now, you can Check in online for a “boarding pass” for the Artemis I mission.Who is expected to launch and orbit the moon in May or June.
Every seat is free in one way or another. Artemis I will be an unmanned test flight for future lunar missions. When you register with NASA, your name is added to a USB drive on board the unoccupied crew capsule and a flashy digital boarding pass as proof.
Powered by NASA’s most powerful rocket to date, the Space Launch System, the Artemis I mission will see the unmanned Orion spacecraft lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and spend several days in orbit around the moon before returning on earth. If all goes as planned, the Artemis 2 mission will make a manned flyby of the moon in 2024.
The ultimate goal of the Artemis program is to return humans to the moon by 2025, 53 years following the last manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17. In Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo and the goddess of the moon.
Under the program, NASA will land the first woman and first people of color on the Moon, where it also plans to work with international and commercial partners to create a long-term human presence and use those lessons to take astronauts on Mars.
NASA has called out names before, like in 2020 when nearly 11 million names were installed on the Mars Perseverance rover, which continues to crawl around the Red Planet.
Signing up to put your name on the Artemis I board is quick and easy. As a bonus, you earn 1.3 million new miles, or 2.1 million kilometers, the total distance traveled by the Artemis 1 mission.