Artemis: NASA may hit moon again.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has wheeled out its Artemis I lunar mission to the launchpad for testing at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. 

NASA's Artemis project, named after Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology, is billed as the next phase of lunar exploration. Artemis is also the moon goddess. It is the first in a series of more sophisticated missions that will allow humans to explore the Moon and Mars. NASA's Artemis programme seeks to place people on the moon by 2024, as well as to land the first woman and person of colour on the moon. NASA will build an Artemis Base Camp on the Moon's surface and a gateway (a lunar outpost orbiting the Moon) in lunar orbit to facilitate robot and astronaut exploration. The gateway is a vital component of NASA's long-term lunar activities, serving as a multi-purpose outpost in lunar orbit. Other space agencies are also participating in the Artemis programme. The Canadian Space Agency has agreed to supply sophisticated robots for the gateway. The International Habitat and the ESPRIT module, which will give additional communications capabilities, will be provided by the European Space Agency. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency intends to provide dwelling components as well as logistical supplies. 

Artemis I, originally Exploration Mission-1, will be NASA's Deep Space Exploration System's first integrated flight test. The Orion spacecraft will spend more time in space without docking with a space station than any other ship for people has ever done. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is the most powerful rocket in the world, travelling 2,80,000 miles from Earth over the period of four to six weeks. Exploration Ground Systems have been updated at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is an unmanned space mission that will be launched on an SLS rocket. The mission's major operational aim is to ensure the safe entrance, descent, splashdown, and retrieval of the crew module. SLS and Orion will be launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in the summer of 2022 as part of Artemis I. The mission will conclude when the Orion spacecraft can safely return to Earth. The second mission in the programme will include a crew and will test Orion's crucial systems with humans on board. The Artemis programme's findings will eventually be used to transport the first people to Mars. NASA intends to use lunar orbit to obtain the experience needed to expand human space exploration further into the solar system.

The Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 1 and 2 became the first rovers to reach the Moon in 1959. The United States began attempting to put people in space as early as 1961.  On July 20, 1969, eight years later, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Between 1961 and 1968, the United States launched three classes of robotic missions before sending the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. From July 1969 through 1972, 12 American astronauts walked on the Moon's surface.  The United States restarted lunar exploration in the 1990s with the robotic missions Clementine and Lunar Prospector. With the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite in 2009, it launched a new series of robotic lunar missions (LCROSS). NASA launched the ARTEMIS mission in 2011. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probe examined the gravity of the Moon in 2012. Aside from the United States, missions to the Moon have been sent by the European Space Agency, Japan, China, and India. In 2019, China landed two rovers on the Moon's surface, including the first-ever landing on the Moon's far side.

Mankind has always been interested in conquering all that seems to be out of reach. The space exploration missions that has been performed in the past and are being performed in the present are the living examples of the same. The desperation of knowledge and power make the smartest creatures able to achieve triumphant fortune.