NASA Announces Artemis II Mission Crew
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On Monday, the world learned the names of the crew for the upcoming Artemis II mission scheduled to fly around the moon next year. It’s the first crewed mission of its kind in half a century, and one of the crew will be a Canadian picked from the country’s pool of four active astronauts that work alongside NASA in Houston, Texas. Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield joins Farah Nasser to talk about what was looked for among Canada’s astronauts when deciding who would join the team and what the Artemis II mission could mean for the goal of some day landing on the moon once more, in the video published on April 2, 2023, by Global News, as “Artemis II: Chris Hadfield on what it takes to make crew as Canadian astronaut to join lunar mission“, below:
NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, with the team including one woman and three men. The four were introduced during a televised ceremony from Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control – and will travel further from the Earth than anyone has ever been. “This is humanity’s crew,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. The three Americans and one Canadian will be the first to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center no earlier than late 2024, in the video published on April 3, 2023, by ITV News, as “NASA’s first moon crew in 50 years includes one woman and three men | ITV News“, below:
NASA has announced the crew that will fly on the Artemis II mission around the Moon and back to Earth, in the video published on April 3, 2023, by Sky News, as “NASA announces Artemis II mission crew“, below:
In the video published on April 3, 2023, by PBS NewsHour, as “WATCH LIVE: Artemis II astronauts announced by NASA, Canadian Space Agency“, below:
For more details about Artemis 2, please refer to excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Artemis 2 (officially Artemis II)[3] is the second scheduled mission of NASA‘s Artemis program, and the first scheduled crewed mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, currently planned to be launched by the Space Launch System (SLS) in November 2024.[1] The crewed Orion spacecraft will perform a lunar flyby test and return to Earth. Artemis 2 is planned to be the first crewed spacecraft to travel to the Moon, or beyond low Earth orbit, since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Originally designated Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the mission was intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now canceled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission;[4] it was renamed after the introduction of the Artemis program. The mission is also planned to be the first crewed launch from LC-39B since STS-116.
The Artemis 2 mission plan objective is to send four astronauts in the first crewed Orion MPCVSpacecraft into a lunar flyby for a maximum of 21 days using the Block 1 variant of the Space Launch System. The mission profile is a multi-trans lunar injection (MTLI), or multiple departure burns, and includes a free return trajectory from the Moon. The Orion spacecraft will be sent to a high Earth orbit with a period of roughly 42 hours. During this time the crew will perform various checkouts of the spacecraft’s life support systems as well as an in-space rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration using the spent Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) as a target. When Orion reaches perigee once again, it will fire its main engine to complete the TLI maneuver which will send it to a lunar free return trajectory, before returning to Earth.[5][6]
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