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Laredo's Arturo Campos to be immortalized during NASA's Artemis I launch

An entire year in space. they're talking about sending this into a distant orbit of the moon further than what is intended to be a manned spacecraft. are there risks to traveling this far in space? >> we'll go with the orion capsule 40,000 miles away from the moon which is further, much further than "apollo 13" went which was the furthest distance a human rated spacecraft has traveled. this will be the furthest. there are extremes of radiation, extremes of temperatures, things that we need to understand well and the mitigation surrounding those. that's why we have the two mannequins onboard th...

And what we saw as a window is actually a reflection of the docking window reflected on his bubble helmet. each image has been digitally restored and enhanced pixel by pixel to give us the clearest view we've ever had of the moon landings. from vistas of the cratered surface to the eagle lunar module and a glimpse of what everyday life was really like for the astronauts. and they've even revealed the golf ball lost on the lunar surface five decades ago, as alan shepard took his hobby into space. only ten hours of footage were captured during the entire apollo programme, but it's taken years to...

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Laredo's Arturo Campos will be honored as part of NASA's Artemis I launch