NASA Already Has Next Artemis Flight in Its Sights
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"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from the moon in over 50 years.
The astronauts on NASA's Artemis II moon mission are scheduled to land on Earth on Friday. But their re-entry is one of the riskiest parts of the mission, and the Orion spacecraft has known design flaws.
It has been 50 years since humans last walked the lunar surface, and NASA’s efforts to get back there will take place in stages.
It's an exciting time as four intrepid astronauts — Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen, along with NASA astronauts, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover — are heading to the moon on a 10-day mission.