ARTEMIS 1 SUCCESSFUL RETURN TO EARTH

The Artemis 1 mission successfully concluded yesterday with the safe landing in the Pacific of NASA's Orion capsule, after a dreaded crossing through the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 40,000 km/h.

The Orion capsule landed after a journey of just under a month around the Moon.

It was a question of evaluating whether the heat shield will be able to withstand the 2800 degrees Celsius implied by the return of the capsule which contains mannequins fitted with sensors.

This ambitious program aims to return to the Moon by 2025. The American space agency aims to send four astronauts around the Moon on the next flight, in 2024, and to land humans there as early as 2025.

Our country the United States should invest nearly 100 billion dollars in this program. Reconnecting with a project initiated more than fifty years ago.




Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld