We continue to celebrate flight into space! Just minutes ago, the years in planning Artemis I mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is an un-crewed Moon orbiting mission: the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the complete Orion spacecraft – which lifted off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B at 1:04 EDT. On the way to getting closer to putting the United States flag on the Moon once again!! This flight is the closest in human history to the Moon since we visited on the Apollo missions, ,with a six orbits around the Moon and then highly specialized missions from within. The mission is due to last 25-1/2 days, if planning goes on schedule. It has a window of 4 to 6 weeks total. How nice that we are blessed to be in the USA!
Courtesy of @NASA on Twitter:
We are going.
For the first time, the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration. pic.twitter.com/vmC64Qgft9
— NASA (@NASA) November 16, 2022
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Today’s Mission Summary:
| Artemis I Mission to Moon Summary – 11/16/22 |
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Launch
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November 16, 2022
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Rocket
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Orion CM-002
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Spacecraft
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Space Launch System (SLS)
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Expedition
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Artemis I
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Table Information Courtesy NASA.gov
Individual Missions:
| Major NASA Missions – 2021 – 2023 |
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| Launch Date | Mission | Vehicle | Launch Site | Total Launch Cost |
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| 2021 | ||||
| 02/18/2021 | LANDING on Mars: Mars 2020 |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 12/25/2021 | MIRI One of four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope, the id-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, studies planets, stars, and galaxies in infrared light |
Ariane 5 rocket | Arianespace’s ELA-3 launch complex Europe’s Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana |
$10B |
| 2022 | ||||
| 09/26/2022 |
D.A.R.T. Double Asteroid Rendezvous Test (DART) probeTest to explode a meteorite in outer space to collect data |
N/A | N/A | $324.5M |
| 10/05/2022 | Endurance SpaceX Crew-5 Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraftConnecting to International Space Station |
Falcon 9 Dragon |
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center in Florida |
$4.1B |
| 11/16/2022 | Artemis I Un-crewed Moon orbiting mission Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the complete Orion spacecraft |
SLS Orion |
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center in Florida |
$50B |
| 2023 | ||||
| July 2023 to Year of ’24 |
DUE: Between Period Psyche The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter |
Psyche | SpaceX
Hawthorne, CA |
$850M |
Table Information Courtesy NASA.gov
Mission Programs 1958 to Present:
| NASA Mission Programs – 1958 to Present |
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Program |
Start Date |
First Crewed Flight |
End Date |
No. of crewed missions launched |
Notes |
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| Mercury | 1958 |
1961 |
1963 |
6 | First U.S. Crew on a Mission |
| Gemini | 1961 |
1965 |
1966 |
10 | Practice Space Rendezvous/EVA’s |
| Apollo | 1960 |
1968 |
1972 |
11 | First Humans to Land on the Moon |
| Skylab | 1964 |
1973 |
1974 |
3 | First American Space Station |
| Apollo–Soyuz | 1971 |
1975 |
1975 |
1 |
Joint Test Project with Soviet Union |
| Space Shuttle program | 1972 |
1981 | 2011 | 135 | First Missions Where spacecraft was Reused |
| Shuttle-Mir program | 1993 |
1995 |
1998 |
11 | Russian partnership |
| International Space Station |
1993 |
1998 |
Ongoing |
63 | Joint with Roscosmos, CSA, ESA, and JAXA; Americans flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of Space Shuttle |
| Commercial Crew Program |
2011 |
2020 | Ongoing |
3 |
Current program to shuttle Americans to the ISS |
| Artemis program | 2017 |
Ongoing |
Ongoing |
0 |
Current program to bring humans to the Moon again |
Table Information Courtesy NASA.gov
Photo courtesy of NASA.gov
Artemis I Mission to Moon
Awesome photo. Mission to the moon….Buzz Aldrin got married yesterday. on his 93rd birthday. How well I remember him & Neil Armstrong on the moon in July 1969. Congrats to Buzz & bride, enjoy the “honeyMOON”. : )