To The Moon! NASA's Artemis mission plans
The last time Humans were on the moon was in 1972. Since then it's been 50 years and we haven’t left
earth’s orbit. But not for long! NASA’s plans for their Artemis program plans to change all of that
and send Humans back to the moon and this time for building a settlement.
The Artemis program will prepare humanity for the next giant leap, the exploration of Mars.
But how does the Artemis program plan to take humans to the moon? Why will it be important?
What will the Artemis program consist of? In this video we will talk about that and more.
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The last time Humans were on the moon was in 1972, when the last Apollo mission,
Apollo 17 returned back after 12 days. Even though we never went back to the moon, for the
last 20 years, Humans have continuously stayed and worked at the International Space Station,
preparing for the day when we venture back into deep space.NASA’s Artemis program plans to do just
that. It’s not just humans going to the moon, it's humanity going back to the moon and this time for
a permanent stay. Sending Astronauts 250,000 miles to the moon and then 140 million miles to Mars,
requires a bold vision, effective technology, good funding, an excellent program management,
and support from countries and partners all around the world. NASA has been working tirelessly on the
Artemis plan to achieve this bold plan ever since President Trump called on the Agency to return
Humanity back to the moon and beyond. The first clear reference to a lunar mandate came in Trump's
Space Policy Directive on December 1, 2017, which instructed NASA to focus on lunar missions.
Then, in March 2019, Vice President Mike Pence, citing a "space race" with Russia and China,
set NASA an ambitious deadline to have humans land near the south pole of the Moon by 2024, at least
four years ahead of schedule by the agency at the time.The 2024 closing date become met with a
few complaint and issue nearly immediately, with questions bobbing up from inside NASA, Congress
and different establishments approximately how the organization might put together new
factors — inclusive of a rocket, a space suit and a human landing system — appropriately in time.
With its current Artemis program, NASA plans to send astronauts to the South Pole by 2024
and ultimately establish a permanent presence on the moon. In the Artemis program, the first
woman and the first person of color will land on the moon, along with the first international
astronauts to participate on the moon. The infrastructure for the program is huge, from an
outpost on a space station to spacesuits, and from takeoff and landing equipment to commercial
payloads. The Artemis program is run primarily by NASA and American commercial space companies
in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the space agencies of several other nations.
Other countries have been invited to join the program by signing the current Artemis Agreement,
which is open for signature since October 2020. NASA’s mission plan is two-fold:
it focuses on achieving the goal of human landing by 2024 with acceptable technical risks,
while at the same time working towards sustainable lunar exploration in the mid-to late 2020.
2024, will be the most ambitious date possible and the fate of NASA at landings on the moon,
and later, on Mars will be determined by the first initial landing of the Artemis mission.
The United States is unchallenged in space exploration today, however, as more countries
and companies take aim at the Moon, America needs the earliest possible landing on the Moon, as well
as prepare for a historic first human landing to Mars. Landing Astronauts on the moon by 2024 is an
ambitious goal and will require state of the art engineering, technology development, and process
improvements to safely and successfully carry out sustained human exploration of the Moon.
It also opens a door to the US commercial companies and international partners of NASA
to the exploration and development of the Moon. We need several years in orbit and beyond the Moon
to build the confidence of working to carry out long-term work and support life away from Earth
before we embark on our first multi-year human mission to Mars. The sooner we get to the Moon,
the faster we land American astronauts on Mars. NASA plans to take immediate actions to make
this vision a reality, and with the arrival of the staff in the month of 2024 is the key to an
effective test of the Moon to Mars. NASA's next arrival of the moon opens the way for a new and
more stable economy — when U.S. companies and its international partners will benefit there.
The Artemis program is designed to land humans on the moon quickly, by 2024, and then focus on
mars as a long-term mission. The Moon will be a good base if we plan to travel and live on mars.
Elon musk, the CEO of SpaceX often says that, We should have had a moon base by now!! The moon will
be our first experience on living and carrying out experiments on a celestial body outside Earth.
The short-term preliminary plan is to use both commercial rockets such as NASA's space launch
system, the Orion crew capsule and a lunar landing system. A small space station in lunar orbit
called the Gateway would serve for future surface missions. But how will these different systems
work and coordinate to make the Artemis vision of landing humans safely back to the moon a reality?
With the Powerful SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM (SLS) rocket
and the Orion Spacecraft ready and sitting on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space center,
the agency has laid the foundation required to send humans back to the Lunar Orbit. The most
powerful rocket ever built by NASA was rolled out to the LAunch Pad on Thursday evening, March 17.
The rollout marks the culmination of a new NASA rocket that will help astronauts move to the moon
where they will be transferred to the SpaceX Starship moon lander so that humans can return
to the Moon later in the decade. Orion and SLS are also the vehicles for the launch of NASA's crew of
missions at the upcoming Lunar Gateway station. NASA's Space Launch System is NASA's heavy-lift
rocket designed to carry people and cargo into the solar system. It is a massive rocket
based on space shuttle-based technology. It's essentially a larger version of the shuttle stack
that swaps the winged orbiter for cargo or for the Orion crew capsule on top.
The center stage of the vehicle is a stretched external shuttle fuel tank, which is powered by
4 space shuttle main engines (RS25). (During the Shuttle program these engines were refurbished
and reused; for SLS they will be ditched in the ocean.) A pair of solid-fuel rockets from
the 5-segment space shuttle are used to support the core phase in the initial phase of flight.
The Orion spacecraft is a crew vehicle that can support up to 4 astronauts on space travel,
similar in concept but with a larger interior space than Apollo capsules. Unlike capsules,
which were designed solely for low-Earth orbit transport, Orion's heat shield can withstand the
high-speed reentry required when returning from space. The Orion spacecraft consists of three main
components: a pressurized crew capsule, a service module, and a launch abort tower that is nominally
dropped on the rise. Orion has successfully completed one flight test to date, a high Earth
orbit mission called Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT1) on December 5, 2014. To make the lunar
landing the safest, NASA seeks to make full use of early artemis missions through additional testing
of Orion and the Human landing system(HLS). On top of this the Lunar Gateway is a critical component
for the Artemis mission. NASA will integrate the first two modules of the Gateway on Earth,
launching the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO)
together in 2023 on a single rocket, followed by a commercial logistics supply launch.
In 2024, the Orion Spacecraft will deliver its first crew to Lunar Orbit. After that,
the commercially developed lander will take the crew to the Lunar Surface which
will be capable of Docking directly to Orion for crew transfer for early Artemis missions.
But NASA will maintain flexibility for optional docking to the Gateway. On the surface of the
Moon, the crew will wear the new exploration extravehicular mobility unit or xEMU spacesuit,
which are next-gen high tech spacesuits developed by NASA for the crew to explore the lunar surface
and then Mars in the coming future. NASA unveiled two prototype spacesuits for Artemis in 2019.
The first is the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), a red, white and blue
suit designed to be worn on expeditions to the lunar surface. . The second is the Orion
Crew Survival System, a bright orange pressure suit worn by astronauts in the Orion capsule
when they launch into space and return to Earth. Starting in October 2020, NASA planned to produce
five xEMU suits in the first batch: one for design review, one for qualification testing,
one for International Space Station in-orbit testing, and two for the first landing mission.
In the future Artemis missions, the crew will arrive at the Lunar GAteway aboard Orion. On the
gateway, they will be able to Conduct Research and take trips down to the Surface of the moon.
NASA will be working with Artemis providers to ensure that the spacecraft are built to
international safety standards with as many reusable components as possible to make the
program sustainable in the long-term. NASA’s international partners at the ISS are excited and
ready to join NASA in Lunar orbit. The Canadian SPace Agency will provide the advanced robotics
for the Gateway, and the European Space Agency will provide the International habitat(Ihab)
and ESPRIT module, which will deliver additional communications capabilities, a science airlock for
deploying science payloads and CubeSats, and refueling of the Gateway. The Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency or JAXA will provide habitation components and logistics resupply. The Russian
Space Agency or Roscosmos has expressed its interest in cooperation on the Gateway as well.
At the Lunar South pole, NASA along with the help from its aorteners will develop the Artemis
Base camp to support longer expeditions on the moon. In 2020, NASA revealed initial plans for
its Artemis base camp near Shackleton Crater. As the facility evolves and grows, supplies of water,
garbage disposal, communications, landing vehicles and protection of astronauts from radiation will
be needed, NASA said. The base will also include two mobility systems: a lunar all-terrain vehicle
for the movement of astronauts on the surface and a habitable mobility platform that could
support trips from the base for up to 45 days. The facility can also allow for moon dust-related
experiments, in-situ resource utilization or a far-side radio telescope. The elements of Planned
Base Camp include a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV, or non-compressed rover), a portable platform
(pressurized rover), a base base module, power systems, and in-situ utility systems.
This increase in the ability of the Moon and its surroundings is crucial in establishing long-term
exploration of the Earth's closest neighbor and in preparing for human exploration of Mars.
The Artemis mission will be one of the most ambitious missions for NASA in the last few
decades. The stakes can never get higher. NASA has to not only land humans back to the moon by 2024,
but also make it sustainable in the long-term. So What do you think about the Artemis plans
we discussed above? Do you think we will be able to get boots on the moon by 2024.
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section. In this video we talked about the basic plans for
the Artemis mission, but there will be many more updates coming up in the near future. The SLS is
already sitting on the Launch pad. So if you don’t want to miss out on the upcoming updates
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