Artemis 1 moonship in good shape midway through mission
Managers say the unpiloted Orion spacecraft is "operating just tremendously well" halfway through its planned 25-day mission.
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Managers say the unpiloted Orion spacecraft is "operating just tremendously well" halfway through its planned 25-day mission.
The Cargo Dragon is loaded with 7,700 pounds of equipment and supplies, including two new solar array panels.
After a spectacular lunar flyby, the Orion capsule is headed toward a distant orbit around the moon.
"We're going to be sending people down to the surface and they're going to be living on that surface and doing science," NASA official Howard Hu said.
A critical rocket firing on the back side of the moon sent the Orion capsule toward a distant orbit for extended tests.
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Scientists say the new observations are just the tip of the iceberg of new discoveries coming in from Webb.
Blackwell-Thompson is the first woman to direct a NASA launch. She celebrated by cutting off the end of her tie.
After a series of delays, the 322-foot-tall Artemis moon rocket finally blasted off with an eruption of white-hot fire and an earth-shaking roar
If all goes well, the SLS rocket will send an unpiloted Orion capsule on a nearly monthlong journey to circle the moon and return to Earth.
Engineers concluded hurricane-damaged insulation poses no credible threat to the $4.1 billion rocket.
High winds caused a thin strip of caulk-like material known as RTV to delaminate and pull away from the base of the crew capsule's protective nose cone at the top of the rocket.
Initial inspections revealed no major damage, but a detailed assessment will be carried out to make sure.
The space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral in Jan. 1986.
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