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NAOur Artemis II crew will be going around the Moon... but they’ll always find their way back home 🌎
During this complex and far-reaching journey, the four crew members will travel ~685,000 miles looping around the Moon and back to Earth in a span of about 10-days. The mission follows a free-return trajectory that uses the gravity of the Earth and Moon to naturally guide the crew home.
During the mission, the astronauts are going to get a unique perspective of the Moon while testing Orion’s systems and performing science operations.
Visual description: This artist’s concept depicts the trajectory for NASA’s Artemis II test flight, an approximately 10-day mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon and back. The agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will fly an orbit around Earth and then venture around the Moon before returning to Earth.
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