In recent days there has been much talk about a space program run by the POT named after Artemis. The objective of this is to take man to the Moon again, but for this to be carried out there must first be a pilot test that will be in charge of the Artemis 1 mission. And although this exploration will not carry any human passengers on board, it will have an important goal that will mark the development of the rest of the lunar project.
Through various communications, the US space agency has reported that the first mission of the Artemis program is destined to make an exploratory trip around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, which will be in charge of making this journey. This first flight is intended to test the spacecraft and the conditions that the next crew will have to face.
the return to the moon
The uncrewed Artemis 1 will mark the debut of NASA’s massive SLS rocket. This will send the Orion capsule on a roughly four-week trip around the Moon. And if all goes according to plan, the Artemis 2 mission will continue in 2024, replicating this same route but with a human crew.
But in addition to serving as a pilot test, this first mission also has the objective of investigating how much danger the crew will face, so on board the Artemis 1 there will be some test dummies to assess the level of radiation that can be captured on this trip.
mission success
“Understanding this risk is very important for successful and sustainable space exploration efforts in deep space.”Ramona Gaza of NASA’s Johnson Space Center said at a briefing on Wednesday, August 17.
Gaza explained that on board Artemis 1 there will be two mannequins equipped with 5,600 sensors to measure radiation; of the two, only Zohar will wear an AstroRad radiation protection vest. They will also be accompanied by another inanimate crew member who, in addition to collecting information on the acceleration and vibration of the trip, has two radiation sensors to see the accumulated exposure that this lunar mission involves.