At 1:47 a.m. EST (6:47 UTC) on Nov. 16, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from historic Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a path to the Moon, officially beginning the Artemis I mission. Over the course of 25.5 days, Orion performed two lunar flybys, coming within 80 miles (129 kilometers) of the lunar surface. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles (435,000 kilometers) from our home planet. NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 9:40 a.m. PST (12:40 p.m. EST) as the final major milestone of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I set new records of performance, exceeded efficiency expectations, and established new safety baselines for humans in deep space. This is a prelude to what comes next—following the success of Artemis I, human beings will fly around the Moon on Artemis II. — NASA — Return to the Moon Source: NASA (https://images.nasa.gov/) Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government, 17 U.S.C. §105) Audio is served by the publisher; Budi does not host or modify it.
0:07On behalf of all the men and women across our great nation who have worked to make this day possible, I give you a go to launch Artemis 1. For the first time in 50 years we were breaking out of low earth orbit to head toward the moon. We are putting something that we dreamed about into reality. It sent the message really to the world that we have laid the foundation for a generational rocket. How many times in your career do you get to be a part of a first? And liftoff of Artemis I. We rise together back to the moon and beyond. For Artemis, this is just the starting point. Ladies and gentlemen, your Artemis II crew! Thank you to the NASA workforce. Thank you to our industry partners, everyone in Europe that's working for this.
0:57America has made a very deliberate choice to curate a global team and we are going to the Moon together. We need to celebrate this moment in human history. It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars. Am I excited? Absolutely! We're going to test out the vehicle's ability to conduct rendezvous maneuvers, crews' ability to actually fly Orion manually, and most importantly we're gonna test the environmental control system. We got humans onboard, we gotta keep them safe, we got to keep them breathing. And then we're going have them come back at that high speed entry of 32 times The speed of sound to make sure that they can survive this for future missions. And so we have new launch commit criteria, we have changes to our procedures, changes to
1:46our timelines. We have new systems for crew, we have new system in the capsule, we've an emergency egress system. By building incrementally these capabilities, improving these capabilities that we have, we will be able to live on the moon and be able to perform science for deep space exploration. I am ready for Artemis II. The SLS team is ready for Artemis II. We are ready for Artemis 2. We ARE ready. We ARe ready. Alright, I'm ready. Let's go!
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