“Artemis 1”: According to Nasa, the moon flight should start next Saturday

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Nasa is aiming for next Saturday as the new start date for “Artemis” moon flight

Nasa names next Saturday as the “earliest” new start date for the “Artemis I” mission.

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08/31/2022, 11:55 am

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NASA continues to work on launching the “Artemis I” flight. Now the mission management has the coming Saturday in mind. Changes in the starting process should bring the solution.

After the failed start of the unmanned “Artemis” moon flight, the US space agency Nasa now sees next Saturday as the next possible start date. After the problems on Monday, the team decided to change the fuel loading process, said Mission Manager Mike Sarafin on Tuesday (local time).

The start was unsuccessful, among other things, because of an engine leak, the temperature of one of the four engines being too high and weather problems. Now the engines are to be cooled down earlier in the starting process, shared the NASA With.

“Artemis”: Start on Saturday not sure either

The start on Saturday afternoon (local time) from the Cape Canaveral spaceport is by no means certain. It could still be canceled due to the weather, it said. At 2:17 p.m. (8:17 p.m. German time) a two-hour window for a possible start begins; the meteorologists are currently still optimistic for this time. Originally, NASA named Friday and Monday as starting alternatives.

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Return to the moon: With the “Artemis” program, NASA is working on bringing people back to Earth’s satellite for the first time since the Apollo missions, which ended in 1972. It should be in 2025. The first test flight to the moon will start in March. Ex-President Donald Trump initiated the return to the Earth Companion. He wanted to be one step ahead in the prestigious new space race. From a scientific, but not least from an economic point of view. A conceivable extraction of mineral resources, in which private companies will also be involved, will bring earthly problems to the moon. For example, territorial claims are foreseeable, for which there are no regulations in the previous, rather rudimentary space law.

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The unmanned test flight “Artemis I”, which lasts around 40 days, is intended to herald the return to manned flights to the moon. NASA wants to send people there again with its “Artemis II” mission at the earliest in 2025, including a woman and a non-white person for the first time. Problems had already arisen with earlier tests and the original schedule had been delayed. The “Artemis” flights should also serve in the long term to prepare for manned missions to Mars.

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