Artemis stacking begins
- Thread starter Gingerbread Demon
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I am very glad to hear this.
Some info on Gateway: https://www.americaspace.com/2020/1...etes-critical-review-for-gateway-halo-module/
Orion Artificial Reality
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/08/29/orion-spacecraft-ar-experience/
Updates
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/09/12/artemis-1-update-for-sept-11/
https://twitter.com/NASA_Nerd/status/1592975166229082113?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1592975166229082113|twgr^951b8d5db5596138a60428940f977ab9e767ac2d|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/artemis-moon-program.32471/page-22
Drawing
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/artemis-moon-program.32471/page-22#post-563609
Supercuts
https://www.universetoday.com/158874/nasa-releases-a-stunning-new-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-launch/
https://www.universetoday.com/15894...-showing-the-launch-and-flight-past-the-moon/
Some info on Gateway: https://www.americaspace.com/2020/1...etes-critical-review-for-gateway-halo-module/
Orion Artificial Reality
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/08/29/orion-spacecraft-ar-experience/
Updates
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/09/12/artemis-1-update-for-sept-11/
https://twitter.com/NASA_Nerd/status/1592975166229082113?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1592975166229082113|twgr^951b8d5db5596138a60428940f977ab9e767ac2d|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/artemis-moon-program.32471/page-22
Drawing
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/artemis-moon-program.32471/page-22#post-563609
Supercuts
https://www.universetoday.com/158874/nasa-releases-a-stunning-new-supercut-of-the-artemis-i-launch/
https://www.universetoday.com/15894...-showing-the-launch-and-flight-past-the-moon/
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I’m stoked.
I want NTRs atop these, like Stan Borowski and others envisioned:
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/nuclear-rocket-redux/
The long road—
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/0...pad-the-troubled-history-of-orion-sls-part-1/
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/0...pad-the-troubled-history-of-orion-sls-part-2/
Come-back
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/1...mpletes-outbound-powered-flyby-heads-for-dro/
The walkabout is complete
I want NTRs atop these, like Stan Borowski and others envisioned:
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/nuclear-rocket-redux/
The long road—
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/0...pad-the-troubled-history-of-orion-sls-part-1/
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/0...pad-the-troubled-history-of-orion-sls-part-2/
Come-back
https://www.americaspace.com/2022/1...mpletes-outbound-powered-flyby-heads-for-dro/
The walkabout is complete
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Orion is not a lander. It orbits much like the crewed Dragon dragon and the Boeing Starliner. It is designed to withstand re-entry velocities from lunar transit. In some ways it is an updated Apollo command module.
Artemis I will fly uncrewed. Artemis 2 will fly crewed with a very similar profile to Apollo 13 using free return trajectory. Artemis 3 will supposedly be a landing. They're still working on the lander thing..
Orion has already flown in orbit once, in 2014. This has not been a very rapid program.
They're skipping a crewed, orbital test flight, essentially jumping ahead to Apollo 8?
Shuttle went all up with a crew and two ejection seats so.. precedent.
But yeah, Orion will have been tested in orbit twice, and they're not exactly launching SLS's left and right. This is the best they can do. The Cheese Puff Administration had pushed hard for a crewed first launch but the director and NASA all pushed back on that.The step by step approach can skip steps that have been previously demonstrated. Apollo 7 proved that Apollo was safe for crew, 8 that lunar distance tracking and re-entry worked, 9 that two ships could separate and redock, 10 that they could do it in lunar orbit.
All done, so Artemis doesn't have to reprove it. Necassarily (after 40 years maybe a reproof might be an idea. But launch and reentry are always the most risky bits, so the fewer the safer).
All done, so Artemis doesn't have to reprove it. Necassarily (after 40 years maybe a reproof might be an idea. But launch and reentry are always the most risky bits, so the fewer the safer).
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13 was the first not to fly free return. Necessary for the landing site, but a difficulty after the problem.
13 was the only free return trajectory
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/super-guppy-arrives
Everyone loves the Super Guppy!
and it's back, delivering Orion's heat shield. (edit.. this one is for the Artemis IV heat shied)
Everyone loves the Super Guppy!
and it's back, delivering Orion's heat shield. (edit.. this one is for the Artemis IV heat shied)
More like Apollo 13 if they don't perform a lunar orbit insertion (LOI) and trans earth injection (TEI) but instead follow a free-return trajectory.
Beats me.
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