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Forum:	Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic:	[Discuss] NASA's Artemis-1 mission (Orion)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, speaking before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, [URL=https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/nasa-to-consider-use-of-private-rockets-for-first-orion-lunar-mission/]opened the door[/URL] to launching Exploration Mission-1 on commercial rockets. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We are now understanding better how difficult this project is, and it's going to take some additional time. I want to be really clear. I think we as an agency need to stick to our commitment. If we tell you, and others, that we're going to launch in June of 2020 around the moon, I think we should launch around the moon in June of 2020. And I think it can be done. We should consider, as an agency, all options to accomplish that objective. The mission would work something like this. A heavy-lift rocket would launch Orion and its service module into low-Earth orbit. Another rocket would launch a fully fueled upper stage into orbit, which would then dock with Orion. This upper stage would provide the propulsion needed to push Orion out of low Earth orbit and inject it into lunar orbit. Bridenstine did not name the rockets under consideration...[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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