Artemis 1 is set to lift off on Monday (Aug. 29).
"We're not going to promise that we're going to get off on Monday,"Mike Sarafin, NASA's Artemis 1 mission manager, told reporters in a launch readiness briefing on Saturday, adding that weather or technical issues can cause delays."But, you know, we do feel good about our attempt on Monday in terms of our overall setup.", which aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2025.
"Our number one mission priority is to test the vehicle in lunar reentry conditions," Sarafin said."We need the rocket to do its job in order to set those initial conditions." To do that, NASA will launch Artemis 1 on a 42-day trip around the moon. Orion will take about 10 days to reach its long, sweeping orbit around the moon and spend two weeks there, ranging from just 60 miles above the lunar surface to 40,000 miles beyond the moon — breaking a distance record set in 1971 by theIf all goes well, the spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Oct. 10.
"At this time we are, as a launch team, not working on any issues," NASA launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson said in the briefing on Saturday.
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