In case you missed any of the 25-day flight of Artemis 1, NASA has compiled a 25-minute spotlight reel that showcases the highest moments of the mission, from launch to splashdown.
The House Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off on November 16, 2022 from Kennedy House Heart in Florida, sending the Orion spacecraft out previous the Moon, testing out the capsule within the harsh setting of deep space. It will put together and ‘shake down’ each the spacecraft and the bottom methods and groups earlier than flying astronauts on Artemis II.
Through the mission, Orion carried out two lunar flybys, coming inside 130 km (80 miles) of the lunar floor. At its farthest distance throughout the mission, Orion traveled almost 435,000 km (270,000 miles) from Earth. In total throughout its 25.5-day circumlunar flight, the Orion spacecraft traveled greater than 2.25 million km (1.4 million mi) and flew past the Moon’s orbit. Moreover, Orion stayed in space longer than any spacecraft designed for astronauts with out docking to a space station.
With cameras mounted on the solar arrays of the European Service Module, the mission sent back some images which might be sure to become iconic of the Artemis program, exhibiting of our tiny fragile world along with the Moon within the foreground.
Orion came back to Earth on December 11. Throughout re-entry, Orion endured temperatures of about 2,300 levels Celsius (5,000 levels Fahrenheit). Inside about 20 minutes, Orion slowed from almost 25,000 mph to about 20 mph for its parachute-assisted splashdown.
Artemis 2 will carry astronauts on roughly the identical orbital path. That mission is presently set to launch in Might of 2024, however like Artemis 1, it is going to probably see a number of delays that can push the launch to later that yr.