🚀 NASA’s Artemis I has launched on a mission around the moon and back to Earth 🌙. Follow Artemis on its 25.5 day journey through space 👇
, a suited mannequin that can collect data on what future human crews might experience on a lunar trip. The mannequin’s name, picked via a public contest, is a nod to Arturo Campos, a NASA electrical power subsystem manager who aided in Apollo 13's safe return to Earth.
Artemis I also carries 120 pounds of mementos, including Apollo 11 memorabilia, toys, patches, pins and other items of cultural significance in its Official Flight Kit., and the toy will float in the Orion capsule once it reaches microgravity. The stage adapter connects the Orion crew and service modules to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. The 45-foot-tall ICPS is the modified second stage of a Delta IV rocket. This upper stage of the rocket will give Orion the propulsion it needs in space after the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and core stage of the rocket separate from the spacecraft.
After liftoff, the solid rocket boosters separated from the spacecraft about two minutes into the flight and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean, with other components also jettisoning shortly afterward. The core stage of the rocket separated about six minutes later and fell toward the Pacific Ocean, allowing for Orion's solar array wings to deploy.
Orion will also surpass the distance record of 248,654 miles -- set by Apollo 13 in 1970 -- on day 11 when it loops around the moon. The spacecraft will achieve its maximum distance from Earth of 280,000 miles on day 13 when it ventures 40,000 miles beyond the moon.Orion will make its second-closest approach of the lunar surface, coming within 500 miles , on December 5. The service module will experience a burn that enables the moon's gravity to slingshot Orion back on its way to Earth.
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