After a bumpy start, NASA’s lunar mission “Orion” capsule has come close to its target for the first time. The US space agency NASA said it flew past the moon at a distance of about 130 kilometers.
The “Orion” capsule of “Artemis 1” is traveling at 5,102 miles per hour (about 8,211 km/h), NASA Administrator Jim Free tweeted Monday. The unmanned capsule would be in space for about three more weeks before it is expected to return to Earth. The test mission is a project with German and Israeli participation.
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The mission has not been under a good star so far. After delays (eg due to storms) and increased costs in development and construction, the start of the test had to be postponed several times. The first start was successful last week. The rocket “Space Launch System” was used at the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida.
“Orion” is unmanned, but has two marionettes or “astronaut phantoms” on board. With the “Artemis” program, named after the Greek goddess of the moon, another American astronaut and American astronauts will land on the moon in the coming years. It’s been 50 years since NASA put humans on the moon.
Source: Krone
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