This was communicated by NASA through its Twitter profile, where it detailed that the takeoff window of the ship that will travel to the Moon will start at 2:17 p.m. (local time, 8:17 p.m. Spanish peninsular time).
Once the bug was fixed, the director of the Artemis mission, Mike Sarafin, announced that the Artemis I continues on platform 39B of the Kennedy Space Centerfrom where it will go into space on September 3.
The Artemis I mission is intended to be the first step, even without a crew, for successive missions with the final goal of the return of astronauts to the surface of the Moon and enable a long-term human presence for decades to come.
The main goals of Artemis I They are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown and recovery before the first crewed flight on Artemis II, NASA said at a briefing on August 5.
The mission duration It is set at between four and six weeks, with a journey of 2.1 million kilometers, with several orbits of the Earth and the Moon in its journey.
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