NASA Crew-4 Moon Rocket Dreams | Artemis I Launch Pad Tour

NASA Crew-4 Moon Rocket Dreams | Artemis I Launch Pad Tour

Prior to their launch to the International Space Station this week, NASA's Crew-4—NASA astronauts Mission Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Bob Hines, and Mission Specialist Jessica Watkins, and Mission Specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA)—visit the Space Launch System (SLS) with Orion and the European Service Module (ESM) atop it, on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.  It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

Learn more about Artemis I at:

NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Image Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Image Date: April 19, 2022

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