NASA announced the astronauts for ARTEMIS Mission

Subject : Science and technology

Section: Space Technology

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NASA has announced the four astronauts that will go to the lunar orbit and come back with the Artemis 2 mission—mission commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA mission specialist Christina Koch.

Artemis II:

It will take off in 2024.
Artemis II will have a crew aboard Orion and will be a test mission to confirm that all of the spacecraft’s systems will operate as designed when it has humans on board.
But the Artemis II launch will be similar to that of Artemis I. A crew of four astronauts will be aboard Orion as it and ICPS orbit the Earth twice before moving to the direction of the Moon.
The Artemis 1 mission allowed NASA to test the foundations of its latest human space exploration capabilities. This included the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and all associated ground systems.
Artemis 2 will be the first crewed mission to test all this.
The 10-day-long mission will have the four astronauts flying around the Moon to test Orion and its life-support missions to ensure that it can provide a safe habitat that will allow astronauts to live and work during deep space missions.

What will happen during the Artemis 2 mission?

The initial launch will be similar to what happened during the Artemis 1 mission.
After that, the Orion spacecraft and the SLS’s upper stage (ICPS or the interim cryogenic propulsion stage) will orbit Earth twice.
They do this to ensure that all of Orion’s systems are working fine while it is still close to our planet.
After this, the Orion spacecraft will travel to about 10,300 kilometres past the far side of the Moon. From this vantage point, the astronauts will be able to see both the Moon in the foreground and the Earth in the distant background.
Orion will take advantage of the Earth-Moon gravity field to bring itself back to our planet without any propulsion at all. This is possible because the spacecraft is taking a “lunar free return trajectory.”