Artemis II Mission

Description

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Context

NASA in the past week announced the crew that will fly aboard its Artemis II mission — a lunar mission that will pave the way for further deep space explorations.

ARTEMIS: https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/artemis-program-10

Artemis II

Artemis 2 is the second scheduled flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed Artemis mission.
During Artemis 2, four astronauts, will fly around the moon before returning to Earth.
The roughly 10-day-long mission is tentatively scheduled to launch in November 2024.
Artemis 2 will use the huge Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft to launch the crew on the lunar flyby mission.
The astronauts and mission controllers will collect data on Orion and the crew's performance to assess how ready the Artemis program is to send people to the moon's surface.

PRACTICE QUESTION

Q. Which of the following statements regarding the moon’s exploration is incorrect?

a) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft studied the Moon’s gravity.

b) Apollo 11 was the first space mission to visit the Moon.

c) Clementine was lunar robotic exploration mission of the USA.

d) CAPSTONE is a part of the Artemis programme of NASA.

1. a, b and c

2. b only

3. b and c

4. All of the above.

Correct Answer: Option 2

Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon, and the first of a series of Soviet automatic interplanetary stations successfully launched in the direction of the Moon.

Clementine was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA, launched on January 25, 1994. Its objective was to test sensors and spacecraft components in long-term exposure to space and to make scientific observations of both the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos.

CAPSTONE’s primary mission is to pioneer a new and challenging lunar orbit in order to help inform future operations for NASA's new lunar space station and the rest of the ARTEMIS program.