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Fifty Years After Apollo, NASA Starting From Scratch on Moon Mission

2022-09-05 1 Dailymotion

Fifty Years After Apollo, , NASA Starting From Scratch , on Moon Mission.<br />'Newsweek' reports that NASA's upcoming Artemis mission to the moon comes over fifty years after the space agency scrapped the original moon program.<br />Since then, NASA reportedly discarded <br />much of the hardware that was used in those first <br />successful trips to our planet's rocky satellite.<br />Artemis is NASA's first step at returning astronauts to the moon and establishing a sustainable presence on the lunar surface.<br />The Artemis 1 mission serves as a test of NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the most powerful rocket ever built, the Space Launch System.<br />Over fifty years ago, NASA dismantled <br />the Apollo program, essentially shedding the ability to carry astronauts to the moon.<br />Robert Frost, an instructor and flight controller at NASA, <br />explains that the incredibly complex technology that carried <br />the Apollo astronauts to and on the moon is now gone.<br />An individual person cannot contemplate <br />the scale of detail needed to assemble <br />and operate those vehicles, Robert Frost, Instructor and flight controller at NASA, via Newsweek.<br />So, when the Apollo program ended, <br />the factories that assembled those <br />vehicles were re-tasked or shut down. <br />The jigs were disassembled. <br />The molds were destroyed. , Robert Frost, Instructor and flight controller at NASA, via Newsweek.<br />'Newsweek' reports that the Apollo and Artemis <br />missions have very different goals <br />and require a distinct technological approach.<br />I do think NASA will overcome this <br />challenge, as we have the technology <br />to accomplish these lunar landings—<br />but the development and testing <br />processes will need to be executed <br />nearly flawlessly prior to <br />the first landing attempt, Hank Pernicka, Professor of aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, via Newsweek

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