Testing Our Mega Moon Rocket and Ground Systems | This Week @NASA

Testing Our Mega Moon Rocket and Ground Systems | This Week @NASA 

Week of April 15, 2022: Testing our mega Moon rocket and ground systems, preparing the James Webb Space telescope for science, and testing an instrument for future X-59 research . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA! 

Artemis I moon launch (uncrewed) is currently scheduled for no earlier than June 2022.

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.

NASA's Artemis Program:

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

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

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producer: Lacey Young 

Editor: Shane Apple 

Voiceover: Pat Ryan 

Music: Universal Production Music

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: April 15, 2022

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