Artemis I ✅ Artemis II, next up. 🚀The next #Artemis mission will take four astronauts on a 10-day trip to flyby the Moon and confirm that all of @NASA_Orion's systems operate as designed with people aboard in deep space.More HERE>> https://go.nasa.gov/3jo6qvD
Wheeeeee! Can’t wait!
NASA plans to name the Artemis 2 crew “in a month or two,” says NASA astronaut Stan Love in remarks at the Michoud Assembly Facility this morning.Love will not be on the crew, but he says he will be a CAPCOM (spacecraft communicator) in mission control for Artemis 2.
Artemis I Updates thread:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56782.0Artemis I discussion threads:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53923.0https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57677.0
With the first crewed flights of both vehicles coming up, Starliner and Orion teams are gearing up training operations ahead of Boeing's Crewed Flight Test, as early as April, and Artemis II, as early as next year.By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF):
Staging for SLS.ML-1 (Mobile Launcher -1) is being worked on in ahead of Artemis-II; ML-2 - for SLS Block IB - should soon start rising from the ground next door.You can also see both Crawler Transporters (CT-1, CT-2).➡️
NASA's Jim Free says the agency is still targeting, approximately, "November 2024" for Artemis II.
Teams prepping for engine section join on Artemis II core stage. We have 2 engines out of the box and ready for installation now. Production restart test series, engine test sched for later this week.
Updates to ground software for Artemis II based on lessons learned for Artemis I. Adding environmental control system, removing shuttle systems well past their useful life. Testing new H2 sphere later this year.
There’s a pretty defined schedule we have in place as we waited for the avionics boxes. Allows late November 2024 timeline, early return doesn’t allow us to move up schedule any more but can provide margin.
SM complete mid-May. CM part will be complete mid-June. Mating by late June. Multi element verification at pad this summer. ML can start processing this year. Stacking Q1 2024. Integrated operations June/July, target launch date Nov 2024.
That is 6 months later than the previous date I heard about of May 2024 (18 months). Nov 2024 is 24 months. With the Orion Artemis I trea down and avionics work going on schedule with very few issues and no scheduling issues. Why a date of Nov 2024?
Quote from: oldAtlas_Eguy on 03/07/2023 04:38 pmThat is 6 months later than the previous date I heard about of May 2024 (18 months). Nov 2024 is 24 months. With the Orion Artemis I trea down and avionics work going on schedule with very few issues and no scheduling issues. Why a date of Nov 2024?There were previous statements to the effect of a 27 month "iron bar" between Artemis 1 and 2 due to avionics recertification / reuse, so this is an improvement.
Do I think NASA makes late November 2024 for Artemis II? Probably not. But I bet the mission does not slip too much beyond that. Things are looking good after Artemis I.
JUST IN: On April 3, we will reveal the crew for @NASAArtemis II! Four crew members – three from @NASA & one from @csa_asc – will fly around the Moon. Together, they’ll test the @NASA_SLS rocket & the @NASA_Orion spacecraft. We are going! #StateOfNASA
Mar 10, 2023MEDIA ADVISORY M23-028NASA, Canadian Space Agency to Assign Artemis II Moon AstronautsNASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will announce during an event at 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. CDT) on Monday, April 3, from NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. Traveling aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft during Artemis II, the mission is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.The event will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.Media are invited to attend the event and speak with the astronauts about their assignments. Other experts working on Artemis missions also will be available. Additional opportunities to interview crew remotely will be available on Tuesday, April 4.International media wishing to attend must contact NASA no later than 5 p.m. CDT Friday, March 17. U.S. media must contact NASA no later than 5 p.m. Monday, March 27. Media can RSVP to the Johnson newsroom by calling 281-483-5111 or emailing: [email protected].Artemis II is the first crewed mission aboard NASA’s foundational human deep space capabilities: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed to launch them. The approximately 10-day mission will test and stress the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems to prove the capabilities and techniques required to live and work in deep space in ways only humans can do.The crew will include three NASA astronauts and one CSA astronaut, demonstrating the agency’s commitment to international partnerships through the Artemis program. Artemis II builds on the successful Artemis I flight test, which launched an uncrewed Orion, atop the SLS rocket, on a 1.4 million-mile journey beyond the Moon to test systems before astronauts fly aboard the systems on a mission to the Moon.Learn more about Artemis at:https://www.nasa.gov/artemis/ -end-
Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.Credits: NASA