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And founder of the website space upclose about the importance of the success of this mission. this is a huge deal. this — this had to be successful in order to move forward to the next missions, to send people around the moon and eventually walk on the moon again, as happened the last time, 50 years ago, so it really needed a flawless test flight, the rocket worked perfectly — i was there, i watched it — and then, went around the moon, took great pictures, collected great data, all of the hardware worked perfectly. and then, just a few hours ago it splashed down in the ocean, and that wa...

NASA's Artemis 1 mission ends on a high note! NASA's Artemis 1 mission ends with a "splashing" success. The space agency's Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean earlier this afternoon after almost a month in space.

The next step is artemis 2. i've seen that hardware at various nasa centres and the orion at the kennedy space center, so they're building the next sls rocket in new orleans, it'll be shipped here early next year, then they will combine it with the orion later in the year and then, that mission, artemis 2, will carry four astronauts looping around the moon — they won't go into orbit but they'll go around the moon, about a ten—day flight. there'll be three americans and one canadian, so they'll be the first person, non—american, to fly. and europe, again, will be involved in that, buildin...

Will take it back to the kennedy space center down in florida. fred, all things considered, a tremendously successful mission so far from nasa. we saw this spacecraft lift off back on november 16 on top of the sls space launch system or "artemis" rocket from the space center. it beamed back incredible images from just 80 miles off the surface of the moon. it traveled further than any spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever flown. and along the way all systems performed just beautifully, and now, fred, today we got to see the final big test for this spacecraft. the heat shield. did this he...

>> nasa is continuing to be the leader with continued operation of the international space station. this is the first foray of nasa to begin to send humans beyond low earth orbit. something we haven't done, in fact, no one has done since apollo 17 over 50 years ago and so, the kompl limit ary aspect, which is being aimed at sending humans below low-earth orbit. i think the two are complimentary and shows that we america are still very much leading the game. >> so i wanted to drill down on that a little bit. artemis 2 will essentially repeat the last mission, but with humans onboard. why is tha...