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NASA Moon Mission: Blastoff, crew, trajectory to trip home
15Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA Moon Mission: Blastoff, crew, trajectory to trip home

[ad_1] NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Wednesday, is a 25-and-a-half day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back. NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Wednesday, is a 25-and-a-half day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back.The meticulously choreographed uncrewed flight should yield spectacular images as well as valuable scientific data. - Blastoff -The giant Space Launch System rocket will make its maiden flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its four RS-25 engines, with two white boosters on either side, will produce 8.8 million pounds (39 meganewtons) of thrust -- 15 percent more than the Apollo program's Saturn V rocket.After two minutes, the thrusters will fall back into the Atlantic Ocean.After eight ...
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NASA Artemis moon rocket damaged by Hurricane Nicole
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA Artemis moon rocket damaged by Hurricane Nicole

[ad_1] Free said that NASA teams employing cameras at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center found “very minor damage" on Artemis rocket. After initial visual inspections, NASA said on Thursday that its new mega moon rocket apparently suffered no major damage after Hurricane Nicole hit Florida. But employees must conduct further checks on site as soon as possible to confirm the initial assessment, said Jim Free, associate administrator at the US space agency. Free said that NASA teams employing cameras at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center found "very minor damage such as loose caulk and tears in weather coverings." Nicole made landfall Wednesday night on Florida's Atlantic Coast as a Category 1 hurricane. Free said wind sensors detected gusts up to 82 miles (132 kilometer...
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NASA Artemis Moon rocket launch delayed again, this time by storm
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA Artemis Moon rocket launch delayed again, this time by storm

[ad_1] NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of Florida, officials said. NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of Florida, officials said.A launch attempt, which had been scheduled for November 14, will now take place on November 16, Jim Free, a senior official at the US space agency, said on Twitter. It is the third delay of the highly-anticipated launch in as many months. "Our people are the most important aspect of our mission," wrote Free, who is NASA's Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development. "Adjusting our target launch date for #Artemis I prioritizes employee safety a...
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Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket

[ad_1] NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its targeted liftoff time next week has been postponed by two days, the U.S. space agency said on Monday. Kennedy Space Center lies near the middle of a 240-mile stretch of Florida's Atlantic shore, where forecasters say Tropical Storm Nicole is most likely to strike Wednesday night or early Thursday as a category 1 hurricane. As of Tuesday night, Nicole was packing maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour (100 kph) and gaining force as it headed for the northern Bahamas en route to Florida, the Miami-...
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South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights to moon and more
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights to moon and more

[ad_1] A new deep-space ground station will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond. A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency officials said Tuesday. Through its Artemis programme, which aims to land the first woman or person of colour on the moon by 2025, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is targeting this month for an inaugural launch of its next-generation rocket ship, delayed for weeks by technical setbacks and foul weather. "Next week we should expect to launch the first flight of Artemis," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator and manager at...
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