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Forum:	Exploration: Moon to Mars
Topic:	[Discuss] NASA's Artemis II mission (Orion)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]Artemis II can be likened to several different Apollo flights: [list][]Artemis II is like Apollo 7 because it is a shakeout cruise for the command module's systems. []Artemis II is like Apollo 8 because it is the first time humans will see parts of the far side of the moon with their own eyes. []Artemis II is like Apollo 10 because it will fly from Pad 39B and then practice the maneuvers needed to land on the moon ahead of the next mission doing so. []Artemis II is like Apollo 13 because it will follow a free return trajectory around the moon and back.[/list] At the same time, Artemis II is like none of these missions for numerous reasons. And now for something completely different, from [URL=https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2013285850977546668]Chris Williams[/URL] aboard the International Space Station: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]I took this photo of Kennedy Space Center this weekend. It is not my best photo (should have grabbed a different lens) but it is special – if you zoom in on the rightmost launch pad, you can see a shadow just to the left of the center of the pad. That shadow is from the rocket (and launch tower) that will soon take four of my friends on a trip around the moon as part of the Artemis program! This weekend was the rollout of the rocket, and we passed over Florida just as it was arriving to the pad.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/artemis_2_rollout_iss01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/artemis_2_rollout_iss01.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a> <img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/artemis_2_rollout_iss02.jpg" width="400" height="410" border="0"></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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