Returning to the Moon after 5 Decades

Washington, Mar. 31: The launch of 'Artemis-2', the second phase of the ambitious Artemis project of the American Space Agency (NASA) to send astronauts to the Moon, will take place today (on Mar. 1). Four NASA astronauts will travel to the Moon in a spacecraft. Commander Reed Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Jeremy Hanson will travel in the spacecraft and orbit the Moon before returning to Earth.

The Orion spacecraft carrying the astronauts will be launched in cooperation with NASA's SLS rocket. The spacecraft will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, at 6:24 pm local time on April 1 (today) (3:54 am India time on April 2). The live broadcast can be viewed at hnnathis://tithiti.thiountube.com/tchischi.

The launched spacecraft will orbit the Earth for some time and then head towards the Moon.

It will take approximately 4 days to reach the lunar orbit, which is about 3 lakh km away. After orbiting the Moon, the spacecraft will head towards the Earth and return in 4 days. This is an estimated 8 to 10 day plan, and the spacecraft will orbit the Moon, but the goal of Artemis-2 is not to touch the Moon, which is the goal of the astronauts. Astronauts will touch the Moon in Artemis-3 in 2027. Only the Artemis-1 spacecraft successfully orbited the moon and returned. In the six lunar missions undertaken by America between 1969 and 1972, 12 astronauts touched the moon. Now, five decades later, astronauts will once again go to the moon. At that time, NASA astronauts went to the moon out of curiosity and the desire to go before other countries reached the moon. However, NASA has also formulated a plan to establish a permanent home on the moon in the Artemis project that is currently underway and its advanced stages.

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