Space Launch System

NASA recently conducted a test firing of the engines for its giant Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket.

The SLS rocket is intended to launch the Artemis missions that will take U.S. astronauts back to the Moon.
NASA’s Artemis I mission to test the SLS and an unmanned Orion spacecraft is scheduled to take place before the end of 2021.
The following Artemis II mission in 2023 will take astronauts around the Moon but will not land. Artemis III will send astronauts, including the first woman, to the Moon in 2024.
NASA’s eventual goal is to establish an Artemis Base Camp on the Moon before the end of the decade.
A manned return to the Moon is the first part of the Artemis program to set up a long-term colony and test technologies for a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.

Artemis–Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sun.
Its objective is to measure what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic field to protect it.
NASA’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System, will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft nearly a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit.
Astronauts will dock Orion at the Gateway and transfer to a human landing system for expeditions to the surface of the Moon.
They will return to the orbital outpost to board Orion again before returning safely to Earth.

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