This is the spacecraft that NASA will launch to the moon, taking four astronauts to orbit Earth’s natural satellite for the first time since 1972.
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| NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Photo: NASA/RADISLAV SINYAK via forbes.com |
The Orion spacecraft, which will be used for the space agency’s Artemis 2 mission to orbit the moon, underwent checks last week inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Artemis 2 will be a 10-day test flight that will launch in September 2026 on the agency’s Space Launch System rocket. It will be the first time astronauts have gone to space atop an SLS, which provides more than two million pounds of thrust, according to NASA.
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