62 of 111 successful lunar missions in last 7 decades: NASA database
Europe (Smart-1), Japan (Selene), China (Chang'e 1), India (Chandrayaan-1) and the US (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCCROSS), were launched from 2000-2009.
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Europe (Smart-1), Japan (Selene), China (Chang'e 1), India (Chandrayaan-1) and the US (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCCROSS), were launched from 2000-2009.
NASA is set to unveil four astronauts who will become crew members of the space company's Artemis II mission that would go for a flyby of the moon.
Objective, recover this capsule so we can send astronauts next time in about two years so 202a. well, you mentioned two years. you also mentioned 25,000 miles an hour. that's going to be a bit ofa bumpy landing. what is it we hope to get out of the artemis 2 mission? well, it's going to hit the atmosphere at 25,000 miles. but when it actually splashes down in the ocean, it's just a few miles an hour. the parachutes and the atmosphere actually slow it, but it's coming in faster than the space shuttles, which are about 17,000 miles. so what this will do is it will prove that the orion capsule is...