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What’s at stake in NASA’s Artemis II mission #shorts
60 Minutes· 2026-02-05 21:45
Artemis 2 is meant to lay the groundwork for future Artemis missions that will put Americans back on the moon and establish a lunar space station. The four Artemis 2 astronauts will sling around the far side of the moon in the Orion capsule just about 5,000 m above its surface before heading back home. This mission is to test whether the rocket life support systems and crew controls work as designed.For the crew, this has been almost three years in the making. They trained in simulators launch in 10 seconds ...