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!

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Today’s Mission Summary:

Artemis I Mission to Moon Summary – 11/16/22
Launch
November 16, 2022
Rocket
Orion CM-002
Spacecraft
Space Launch System (SLS)
Expedition
Artemis I

Table Information Courtesy NASA.gov

Individual Missions:

Major NASA Missions – 2021 – 2023
Launch Date Mission Vehicle Launch Site Total Launch Cost
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

Program

 Start Date
 First Crewed Flight
 End Date
 No. of crewed
missions launched
 Notes
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

Crew-5 liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Photo courtesy of NASA.gov

Artemis I Mission to Moon




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  1. 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”. : )

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