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2011 illustration of an SLS launch. Artemis I was outlined by NASA as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) in 2012, at which point it was set to launch in 2017 [28] [note 2] as the first planned flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the second uncrewed test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
For 2021 to 2025, NASA estimates [77] yearly budgets for Orion from $1.4 to $1.1 billion. In late 2015, the Orion program was assessed at a 70% confidence level for its first crewed flight by 2023, [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] but in January 2024 NASA announced plans for a first crewed flight of Orion no earlier than September 2025.
Launch date Crew Launch vehicle [a] Launch pad Duration [b] EFT-1: 5 December 2014 — Uncrewed mission: Delta IV Heavy: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, SLC-37B: 4h24m (success) Exploration Flight Test 1, high apogee high reentry test, carrying an uncrewed Orion capsule on its first spaceflight Artemis 1: 16 November 2022 [1] [2 ...
NASA's Space Launch System rocket, set to launching the Artemis I mission, will boost an Orion capsule to the moon and back over a 42-day test flight.
Artemis 1 took off at 6.47am (1.47am local time), with Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket, its most powerful ever, propelling the Orion spacecraft upwards from the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre ...
Orion entered the moon’s gravitational influence on Sunday and used that power along with a thruster on an outbound powered burn to come within 81 miles from the lunar surface. It ...
The planned evolution of the Space Launch System, the primary launch vehicle for Orion. The Space Launch System (SLS) is a United States super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle, which has been under development since its announcement in 2011. The SLS is the main Earth-launch vehicle of the Artemis lunar program, as of March 2021.
The Artemis 1 moon rocket is comprised of the Space Launch System (SLS), which is the super heavy-lift launch vehicle, and the Orion spacecraft, which contains three main elements including the ...