Part of the’Artemis’ project… Moon landing target for men and women in 2024
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Kwang-bin = The engine ignition test of a rocket that will be used for the NASA’s manned lunar exploration has ended successfully.
According to AP and Reuters on the 18th (local time), four engines of a rocket named’Space Launch System’ (SLS) at the Mississippi Stenis Space Flight Center were ignited for 8 minutes.
The rocket’s performance was tested on the ground by creating the same environment as when it was launched.
NASA conducted the same test in January, but it was automatically shut down by a computer when an abnormality was detected in one minute.
Initially, we aimed to burn for about 8 minutes, but we failed to obtain related data due to the early termination of the test, so we started the test again this time.
With the successful completion of the test, NASA will send Boeing-built rockets to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to prepare for actual launch.
This test is part of the’Artemis’ project that sends mankind back to the moon.
The Artemis project plans to send humans back to the moon half a century after the last lunar landing of the Apollo 17 in 1972.
NASA aims to send a pair of male and female astronauts to the moon by 2024.
The SLS rocket is mounted on the spacecraft’Orion’ developed by Lockheed Martin.
Orion is scheduled to unmanned orbit the moon in November.
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