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Man's first trip to the moon in 1972, with the mission Apollo 17, left everyone — literally — very curious to know more about the satellite that orbits us. A few years ago, the NASA was developing some way to accomplish this feat again to gather more information, and with the Artemis Lunar Program, we will possibly have these results in less than five years. Understand how the program will be carried out and its entire structure. 1l1mj
What is the Lunar Artemis Program? 224n63
The Lunar Artemis Program is NASA's plan to take us to the Moon again, this time more equipped and prepared to be able to collect, study and analyze more of the surface and other aspects of the satellite. This time the group will also be composed of a woman and another person of non-white ethnicity. The Program will still be divided into stages:
- Artemis I Lunar Mission: In this first part, the SLS (Space launch system, new special rocket built for the Lunar Artemis Program) and the spacecraft Orion, without crew, to test their ability to reach the Moon safely;
- Artemis II Lunar Mission: In sequence, the second Quest will also send the Orion by the SLS, but with the proper full crew.
Explaining a little better how the launch works: the team will be aboard the Orion spacecraft that is launched into space by the Space Launch System rocket, better known as SLS. All this must start in 2022, with NASA sending technological equipment as well as instruments to the surface of the Moon, leaving the Program Missions to send — for now — only the crew responsible for exploration. THE Artemis I Lunar Mission, is scheduled for 2022 and the Artemis II Lunar Mission, scheduled for 2024.
A Artemis I Lunar Mission, in addition to being a test event, will also feature a mannequin as captain of the spacecraft: the Commander Moonikin Campos. This "doll" will have the suit that will be used by the crew, consequently sent on the Lunar Mission Artemis II, and will also have sensors to record levels of vibration, radiation and acceleration of the trip, in order to provide NASA with all the information necessary for the safety of, in fact, subsequent crew .
How will the launch be? 5s405t
The rocket responsible for carrying the crew, SLS (Space launch system) is composed of specific technologies for the Artemis Lunar Program, that is, built to withstand travel out of orbit, as well as having the ability to the Orion spacecraft and its crew. On the outside, the rocket has fuel tanks with technologies to leverage up to 4 spacecraft — after the launch of the SLS, these tanks will be released and dispersed in the middle of the ocean. Then the SLS will go its way with two pairs of 5 boosters for the rocket.
Now on the spaceship, Orion, it will have the capacity to hold up to 4 astronauts (similar to the New shepard, Blue Origin). But unlike this and other spacecraft, Orion has the ability to change its interior temperature for necessary moments, such as when the spacecraft returns to Earth orbit and needs to readapt the temperature of the capsule.
Objective of the Lunar Artemis Program p5x3g
Despite being a Program to explore the Moon, the NASA wants to use all this experience so that the mission to Mars get closer and closer to reality. In addition, the Lunar Artemis Program also aims to find water and other resources needed for exploration when we are talking about the long term. A series of investigations related to the satellite's mysteries will also be carried out in previously unseen locations, such as the South Pole of the Moon, so that we can learn more about our planet, the universe and how to live and adapt on the Moon so that it can become a space station when the mission to Mars can be a reality.
The trip from Earth to the Moon is three days, that is, once the Lunar Artemis Program is established and all doubts – or most of them – are resolved, installing a space station on the Moon for possible exploration in Mars It will be an advance never seen before in the history of mankind. It is worth ing that even using a station on the Moon, going to Mars would take a trip of three years.
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In addition to everything already said about the Lunar Artemis Program, there are also some other resources that NASA wants to use to improve the crew experience and the entire Program itself. One of them is the one already mentioned — in the caption of the image above — Lunar Gateway, a strategic point installed in lunar orbit, known as a “space station”, which should serve as a place where astronauts can replenish their supplies and fuel for their spacecraft to continue their missions.
We also have the CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, something like "Experience in Navigation and Technological Operations of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System“What a giant name, huh?). It will be a microwave-sized machine that will act as an intermediary between spacecraft or nearby space stations, using the system Lunar Orbiter Recognition of communication.
In another of the technologies for the Lunar Artemis Program, we have the landing sites. THE NASA is looking for commercial partnerships that can build this resource so that when more than one spacecraft lands on the Moon, it can stay there for at least a few hours. Current landing sites only accommodate a short stay for these craft.
Scheduled to be sent to the Moon in 2023, the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, something like the "Volatile Polar Exploration and Research Rover") is an automobile — more like a robot — that will search the Moon itself for ice, as well as other possible resources that may lie beneath the satellite's crust. In addition to this necessary search, the VIPER rover will also perform a complete sweep of three locations carefully chosen by NASA for greater and better understanding of the full extent of these locations.
Why “Artemis”? 4t481g
According to NASA, the name “Artemis” was given to the Program because it was related to the first trip to the Moon and its respective name: Apollo. Artemis and Apollo, in Greek mythology, were twin brothers, and in addition, Artemis was also the goddess of the Moon. So man's return to the moon is personified by the name of this goddess who is so iconic to NASA and all of us.
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