'It’s the first step we’re taking to long-term deep space exploration, for not just the United States but for the world'
, Artemis 1 took off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The Artemis is carrying the Orion lunar spacecraft which is manned with a model of a human to assess the impacts the impact of the flight on the body.Howard Hu, the Orion programme manager, said the launch was a “historic day for human space flight”.Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “It’s the first step we’re taking to long-term deep space exploration, for not just the United States but for the world.
“I mean, we are going back to the Moon, we’re working towards a sustainable programme and this is the vehicle that will carry the people that will land us back on the Moon again.” He explained the gateway would act as an orbiting platform which would be a staging post for lunar missions, with the astronauts taking “landers” from the platform to and from the Moon.Saying that the aim was for people to live on the Moon, he added: “Certainly in this decade we are going to have people living for durations, depending on how long they are on the surface, they will have habitats, they will have rovers on the ground.
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