The American space agency NASA wants to make a new attempt on Saturday to launch its new moon rocket SLS. NASA Representative Mike Sarafin, who is responsible for the unmanned mission “Artemis 1”, announced this at a press conference on Tuesday.
On Monday, NASA had to cancel the planned first test flight shortly before takeoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida due to technical problems (krone.at reported): There were temperature problems with one of the four main engines of the SLS rocket.
NASA has set itself an ambitious goal: 50 years after the last moon landing, they want to send another rocket to Earth’s satellite. The task of the 42-day mission “Artemis 1” is to launch the most powerful launch vehicle to date, the “Super Launch System” (SLS), and the space capsule “Orion” that sits at the top – it can accommodate up to four astronauts – under real test conditions.
The moon landing should be successful again in 2025
The follow-up mission “Artemis 2” should then put astronauts into orbit around the moon, with “Artemis 3” a moon landing should succeed again in 2025 at the earliest. In the long run, though, it’s going to be a manned mission to Mars.
The launch of the mega rocket will take place from a place with a rich history: from the Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida, where the Apollo flights to the moon took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Source: Krone
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