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Artemis II: NASA Is Preparing for a Return to the Moon, but Why Is It Going Back?

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NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons why the U.S. wants to return.

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NASA's Artemis II mission foresees a flight of approximately 10 days around the Moon, with a schedule that includes verification of Orion systems, trajectory maneuvers, crew exercises and satellite observations before return to Earth.The crew will be composed of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. According to the general flight plan, about eight minutes after …

As the Nasa prepares to launch Artemis II with a view to a new return to the Moon, an even greater ambition emerges: to organize the first human expeditions to Mars. Each lunar mission of the Artemis program will not only serve to prepare men to live on the planet...

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