NASA reveals new capsule to fly around the moon

The Manila Times

NASA reveals new capsule to fly around the moon  NASA reveals fully stacked Orion spacecraft, along with the Artemis II rocket core stage and boosters, ahead of its second manned mission around the moon aimed for 2026.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #NASA #Space

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00:00I think you should see it on those who are doing the interviews.

00:04They're all going to grow their hair.

00:08And that is working very good.

00:12Yeah, that's it.

00:30Okay, so they're going to be on this side of the lawn?

00:45They're going to be on either side, yep, on this side.

00:47Okay.

00:49Yeah, that's right.

01:15Okay.

01:45Okay.

02:14Okay.

02:19Ah, okay.

02:22Okay.

02:51Okay, so this is our Artemis II spaceship.

02:54This is Orion.

02:55The capsule is 5 meters, over 16 feet wide.

02:58Four crew, 21 days of capability on the spaceship.

03:03And, of course, you can see we've got the crew module,

03:05which is the module that houses the crew,

03:08but also returns the crew when they come into Earth's atmosphere.

03:12And then on the bottom is the service module.

03:14The service module houses a lot of our primary systems,

03:17so power, propulsions.

03:19Our main engine is in the service module.

03:21Yeah, we're doing very well on our time.

03:24Certainly we're targeting for that end of April time frame.

03:27You can see behind us we did one of the major activities,

03:30which is put the solar arrays on.

03:32And our European team did a terrific job of doing that.

03:34We got that completed a couple days ahead of schedule,

03:37and so we're very excited about that.

03:39Well, Artemis I was a test of the rocket and the spacecraft, the basic spacecraft.

03:44Artemis II is all about humans.

03:46That's the thing it's really about.

03:48So we'll have four people on board.

03:50Now all the systems that are required to keep humans alive,

03:53they like to breathe.

03:55That's really important.

03:56They like the carbon dioxide to be taken out of the air.

03:58Of course there's practical things like the toilet.

04:00They like to drink water.

04:01They like to eat.

04:02All those kinds of things.

04:03And then, of course, the interactions.

04:05So we have control panels for the crew to interact with the vehicle

04:08and ultimately to fly the vehicle manually.

04:11Artemis II is a nine-day mission,

04:13so launch will fly basically one day around the Earth.

04:16Everything works fine.

04:17We'll fire off the engines and we'll go around the moon,

04:21come back, and we'll land off the coast of San Diego.

04:24And by the time you count all that up, it's about a nine-day mission.

04:28Because it's hard.

04:31But it's not repetition of Apollo.

04:35What we do here is we go to the moon to go beyond the moon.

04:40The moon is the first step to foster and check out all our technology

04:47before we go to Mars.

05:10NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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