Bay Area Edition | April 2023

SPACE

NASA announces astronauts going to the moon on Artemis 2

BY JAKE MAGEE

2 will be Hansen’s rst trip to space, according to a NASA news release. Many NASA astronauts live in the Clear Lake area of Houston and train at the Johnson Space Center. During Artemis 2, Koch said she and her three teammates will ride in the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System, NASA’s most powerful rocket to date, for eight minutes and then stay high in orbit, tens of thou- sands of miles above the Earth, testing various systems. If everything checks out, they will begin a four-day journey nearly 250,000 miles to the moon and y around it, Koch said. On the return to Earth, they will reach speeds of 25,000 mph in Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down in the ocean, Koch said. In total, the mission will last 10 days. According to a NASA news release, the Artemis 2 mission will test Orion’s life-support systems as well as the capabilities and techniques necessary for humans to live and work on and around the moon. “This is a global eort, Artemis 2,” Wiseman said while thanking several organizations and people during the event. The Artemis 1 mission, which com- pleted in December, was an uncrewed test mission around the moon. The last crewed mission to the moon was Apollo 17 in 1972. NASA’s goal is to send humans to live and work on the moon and on the Gateway, a space station that will orbit the moon, to prepare for the next goal: sending humans to Mars.

Aerospace leaders often say the race to space is a marathon, not a sprint. Astronaut Victor Glover lik- ened it more to a series of sprints—a relay race—and now, he said, the baton has been passed to a new generation of astronauts. During a livestreamed event April 3 at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake, Houston, NASA ocials announced the four astronauts who will be part of Artemis 2, a 2024 mission that will take humans around the moon. The four astronauts are Reid Wise- man, mission commander; Glover, mission pilot; and Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen, mission specialists. Hansen, Glover and Koch are NASA astronauts, and Hansen is a Canadian Space Agency astronaut. From all the missions from the 1960s to today, to all the teams around the world that contribute to the aerospace industry, countless others have made the next step possible, Glover said. Now these four astronauts have the baton, and they will make the world proud, Glover said. “This is a big day. We have a lot to celebrate,” he said. Wiseman previously lived aboard the International Space Station from May through November 2014. Glover previously served as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the ISS. Koch served as ight engineer on the ISS on several missions, spending a total of 328 days in space. Artemis

Clockwise from top, astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Hammock Koch will crew the Artemis 2 mission around the moon in 2024.

COURTESY NASA

ARTEMIS 2 FLIGHT PATH Artemis 2 will take four astronauts around the moon.

Launch

Another maneuver to climb higher into space Yet another maneuver to climb higher still

Jettison solid rocket boosters, fairings and launch abort system

12 Return to Earth

Crew module separation from service module Entry into Earth’s atmosphere

Core stage main engine cut o

Burn by Orion’s main engine to put Orion on a path to the moon

Maneuvers to raise Orion’s orbit

Outbound transit to moon

Another maneuver to reach high-Earth orbit

Splashdown in the ocean

Lunar yby

6 Orion separation followed by demonstrations of its capabilities

SOURCE: NASACOMMUNITY IMPACT

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