After about four weeks in space, the unmanned “Orion” capsule of the NASA lunar mission “Artemis 1” is back on Earth. She landed in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday evening and will now be brought into the port of San Diego.
Special forces, divers and boats are deployed. Live images from the American space agency NASA showed the landing of “Artemis 1” on Sunday evening. After cost explosions and relocations, the manned capsule was launched on November 16 with the “Space Launch System” rocket from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome (US state of Florida). Within four weeks it then flew past the moon, entered orbit, left it again and flew past the moon again. In this way, according to NASA, she covered 1.4 million miles (equivalent to 2.25 million kilometers) and was able to collect some data for future missions.
NASA boss Bill Nelson had described the “Artemis” test mission as an “extraordinary success” even before landing. It is considered an important step for the return of humans to the moon. The program, named after the Greek goddess of the moon, should land American astronauts and for the first time a female astronaut in the coming years. It starts with a manned flight around the moon, followed by another manned flight including landing.
No humans on the moon for a long time
NASA put the last humans on the moon in 1972 with the Apollo 17 mission. In all, the United States was the only country to bring twelve people there.
Source: Krone
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