Mission to the Moon, NASA stops Artemis II | EUROtoday

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No race to the Moon for February. In the overall check originally of February, there have been harmful gas leaks within the service, as within the case of the earlier Artemis I mission. Then they had been resolved with none explicit issues in just a few months, to illustrate it immediately earlier than there’s a cry of failure or worse.

This time the flight of Artemis II, from Earth to the Moon and vice versa, is longer, 10 days, extra complicated, will arrive on the furthest level from Earth ever reached by people, and above all will carry 4 astronauts in NASA’s Orion capsule round our satellite tv for pc. It is subsequently apparent that warning have to be most: it’s already critical to lose any satellite tv for pc, not to mention this highly effective and perfected automobile, supported by a posh service module provided by Europe which, above all, transports astronauts: life initially.

Artemis, which should take us again to the Moon, this time to remain there and begin an actual lunar economic system, is a NASA undertaking, which is joined by 60 nations and companies, together with the Italian and the European ones, to which Italy in flip participates considerably, with the third annual funding along with France and Germany, who lately plundered the company’s administration with out paying an excessive amount of consideration to our contribution.

NASA had set February eighth because the launch date of the mission, however within the crucial ultimate check wherein all the required gas is loaded, on February 2nd, some issues had been discovered which they now need to work on. We should wait till March, possible date between the Sixth and the eleventh, or in April the first, the Third-Sixth or lastly the thirtieth.

To return to right this moment, the 49-hour costume rehearsal of Artemis II started on Saturday 1 February, at roughly 2am in Italy. Over the following 36 hours all of the assessments, ignition of each phases of the service or charging of {the electrical} system, had been carried out with no hitch, however in the long run the one on which there was probably the most consideration, the filling of the propellant tanks, failed.