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At right is NASA's new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 18, 2022. Liftoff for the first Artemis mission is set for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Credit: AP Photo\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\" title=\"This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left. At right is NASA's new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 18, 2022. Liftoff for the first Artemis mission is set for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Credit: AP Photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12&#8217;s spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left. At right is NASA&#8217;s new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 18, 2022. Liftoff for the first Artemis mission is set for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Credit: AP Photo<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Years late and billions over budget, NASA&#8217;s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                    The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA&#8217;s famed Apollo moonshots.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, astronauts could strap in as soon as 2024 for a lap around the moon, with NASA aiming to land two people on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is set for Monday morning from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>The six-week test flight is risky and could be cut short if something fails, NASA officials warn.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb-4\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n    <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"An overview of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\/?v=5Wu4D-Db678\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Credit: NASA\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-08-24T12:13:15-04:00\"\/><br \/>\n        <meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wu4D-Db678\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/5Wu4D-Db678\/maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>             <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet the Artemis I mission\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wu4D-Db678?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up mt-4\" itemprop=\"caption\">Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to stress it and test it. We&#8217;re going make it do things that we would never do with a crew on it in order to try to make it as safe as possible,&#8221; NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The retired founder of George Washington University&#8217;s space policy institute said a lot is riding on this trial run. Spiraling costs and long gaps between missions will make for a tough comeback if things go south, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is supposed to be the first step in a sustained program of human exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond,&#8221; said John Logsdon. &#8220;Will the United States have the will to push forward in the face of a major malfunction?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The moon sets in front of the NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With liftoff planned for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the 322-foot rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-1.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\" title=\"The moon sets in front of the NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With liftoff planned for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the 322-foot rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                The moon sets in front of the NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With liftoff planned for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the 322-foot rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The price tag for this single mission: more than $4 billion. Add everything up since the program&#8217;s inception a decade ago until a 2025 lunar landing, and there&#8217;s even more sticker shock: $93 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the first flight of the Artemis program, named after Apollo&#8217;s mythological twin sister.<\/p>\n<p>ROCKET POWER<\/p>\n<p>The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it&#8217;s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of thrust. It&#8217;s called the Space Launch System rocket, SLS for short, but a less clunky name is under discussion, according to Nelson. Unlike the streamlined Saturn V, the new rocket has a pair of strap-on boosters refashioned from NASA&#8217;s space shuttles. The boosters will peel away after two minutes, just like the shuttle boosters did, but won&#8217;t be fished from the Atlantic for reuse. The core stage will keep firing before separating and crashing into the Pacific in pieces. Two hours after liftoff, an upper stage will send the capsule, Orion, racing toward the moon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-2.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A section of the Artemis rocket with the Orion space capsule is seen inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky\u2019s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it\u2019s roomier than Apollo's capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-2.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\" title=\"A section of the Artemis rocket with the Orion space capsule is seen inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky\u2019s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it\u2019s roomier than Apollo's capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                A section of the Artemis rocket with the Orion space capsule is seen inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky\u2019s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it\u2019s roomier than Apollo&#8217;s capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MOONSHIP<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s high-tech, automated Orion capsule is named after the constellation, among the night sky&#8217;s brightest. At 11 feet (3 meters) tall, it&#8217;s roomier than Apollo&#8217;s capsule, seating four astronauts instead of three. For this test flight, a full-size dummy in an orange flight suit will occupy the commander&#8217;s seat, rigged with vibration and acceleration sensors. Two other mannequins made of material simulating human tissue\u2014heads and female torsos, but no limbs\u2014will measure cosmic radiation, one of the biggest risks of spaceflight. One torso is testing a protective vest from Israel. Unlike the rocket, Orion has launched before, making two laps around Earth in 2014. This time, the European Space Agency&#8217;s service module will be attached for propulsion and solar power via four wings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-3.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-3.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\" title=\"NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>FLIGHT PLAN<\/p>\n<p>Orion&#8217;s flight is supposed to last six weeks from its Florida liftoff to Pacific splashdown, twice as long as astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s in order to tax the systems. It will take nearly a week to reach the moon, 240,000 miles (386,000 kilometers) away. After whipping closely around the moon, the capsule will enter a distant orbit with a far point of 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometers). That will put Orion 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) from Earth, farther than Apollo. The big test comes at mission&#8217;s end, as Orion hits the atmosphere at 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) on its way to a splashdown in the Pacific. The heat shield uses the same material as the Apollo capsules to withstand reentry temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,750 degrees Celsius). But the advanced design anticipates the faster, hotter returns by future Mars crews.<\/p>\n<p>HITCHHIKERS<\/p>\n<p>Besides three test dummies, the flight has a slew of stowaways for deep space research. Ten shoebox-size satellites will pop off once Orion is hurtling toward the moon. The problem is these so-called CubeSats were installed in the rocket a year ago, and the batteries for half of them couldn&#8217;t be recharged as the launch kept getting delayed. NASA expects some to fail, given the low-cost, high-risk nature of these mini satellites. The radiation-measuring CubeSats should be OK. Also in the clear: a solar sail demo targeting an asteroid. In a back-to-the-future salute, Orion will carry a few slivers of moon rocks collected by Apollo 11&#8217;s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969, and a bolt from one of their rocket engines, salvaged from the sea a decade ago. Aldrin isn&#8217;t attending the launch, according to NASA, but three of his former colleagues will be there: Apollo 7&#8217;s Walter Cunningham, Apollo 10&#8217;s Tom Stafford and Apollo 17&#8217;s Harrison Schmitt, the next-to-last man to walk on the moon.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-gallery js-article-gallery\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-4.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-4.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-5.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-5.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-6.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-6.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    NASA administrator Bill Nelson takes part in an interview before the scheduled launch of the Artemis 1 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug 29. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-7.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-7.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen on pad 39B during sunset at the Kennedy Space Center, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion\u2019s flight is planned to last six weeks from its Florida liftoff to Pacific splashdown, twice as long as astronaut trips. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/explainer-nasa-tests-n-7.jpg\" alt=\"EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen on pad 39B during sunset at the Kennedy Space Center, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion\u2019s flight is planned to last six weeks from its Florida liftoff to Pacific splashdown, twice as long as astronaut trips. Credit: AP Photo\/John Raoux, File<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>APOLLO VS. ARTEMIS<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 years later, Apollo still stands as NASA&#8217;s greatest achievement. Using 1960s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, NASA took just eight years to go from launching its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, and landing Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. By contrast, Artemis already has dragged on for more than a decade, despite building on the short-lived moon exploration program Constellation. Twelve Apollo astronauts walked on the moon from 1969 through 1972, staying no longer than three days at a time. For Artemis, NASA will be drawing from a diverse astronaut pool currently numbering 42 and is extending the time crews will spend on the moon to at least a week. The goal is to create a long-term lunar presence that will grease the skids for sending people to Mars. NASA&#8217;s Nelson, promises to announce the first Artemis moon crews once Orion is back on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S NEXT<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot more to be done before astronauts step on the moon again. A second test flight will send four astronauts around the moon and back, perhaps as early as 2024. A year or so later, NASA aims to send another four up, with two of them touching down at the lunar south pole. Orion doesn&#8217;t come with its own lunar lander like the Apollo spacecraft did, so NASA has hired Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX to provide its Starship spacecraft for the first Artemis moon landing. Two other private companies are developing moonwalking suits. The sci-fi-looking Starship would link up with Orion at the moon and take a pair of astronauts to the surface and back to the capsule for the ride home. So far, Starship has only soared six miles (10 kilometers). Musk wants to launch Starship around Earth on SpaceX&#8217;s Super Heavy Booster before attempting a moon landing without a crew. One hitch: Starship will need a fill-up at an Earth-orbiting fuel depot, before heading to the moon.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            NASA&#8217;s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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