'We're pushing the limits:' Artemis 2 backup astronaut on 2025 round-the-moon mission (exclusive)

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'We're pushing the limits:' Artemis 2 backup astronaut on 2025 round-the-moon mission (exclusive)
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Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.

Artemis 2 is making progress towards its lunar liftoff, but a newly named backup astronaut notes there is"always something new" to learn in developmental missions., a round-the-moon mission set for September 2025, always put safety before schedules.

But the heat shield is only one item among thousands that Artemis 2 is tracking, and in recent days meaningful progress was made on other critical items. The completed core stage for the powerfulNASA rolls giant Artemis 2 moon rocket core off the factory floor for astronaut mission . Water flow tests for the launch pad were also finished this past week as part of a months-long campaign to

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, who is a backup crew member for Artemis 2, wearing an augmented reality device on his eye, during a field project at the San Francisco Volcanic Field in northern Arizona on May 21, 2024.Douglas said the challenge with spaceflight generally is that the vehicles are practically unique, meaning that engineers learn something after every spaceflight.

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