Cape Canaveral: America’s space research organization National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has sent its Artemis-1 rocket to the moon on November 16, 2022 at exactly 12:17 hours to write a new history in the field of space exploration again after exactly 50 years. Artemis-1 has been launched from the 39-B launch pad of Kennedy Space Center, USA. However, Artemis-1 has been delayed as per its original schedule due to some technical glitches and obstacles such as inclement weather and hurricane Zanjawat.
The Artemis-1 rocket is NASA’s heaviest and most powerful rocket to date. Powered by the Modern Space Launch System (SLS), the Artemis-1 rocket is 98 meters (294 ft) tall. Exactly 53 years after Apollo 11’s first and successful lunar mission in 1969, NASA has again sent its Artemis-1 rocket to the moon. NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft last traveled to the Moon on December 7, 1972. Thus NASA’s moon journey has started again after 50 years.
More than 15,000 citizens gathered at the launch side to watch Artemis-1 travel through the sky. Apart from this, thousands of people gathered on the beach of Florida also greeted this memorable event with clapping and shouts of joy. NASA sources have informed that if everything goes according to our three-week schedule, the Artemis-1 rocket will place the advanced capsule named Orion in lunar orbit. The Orion capsule will not land on the lunar surface but will travel 70,000 km away from Shashi and collect new and useful information. Orion will then return to Earth exactly 42 days later on December 10. will land in the Pacific Ocean. The launch director of Artemis-1, Charlie Blackwell Thompson, informed that when Artemis-1 was launched, it was hit by a huge thrust of 4 million kilograms. With such a huge push, the rocket flew in the sky at a very fast speed of 160 kilometers in one second. Exactly eight minutes after the rocket took off, the main part of the rocket broke loose. Then, the Orion capsule mounted in the forward part of the rocket received a big thrust from the interim cryogenic propulsion stage and it burst out of the Earth’s orbit and accelerated towards the Moon’s orbit in the vastness of space. Charlie Thompson congratulated his team for the successful and safe launch of Artemis-1 and said that now in 2025 there will be another trip to the moon with a female astronaut.