Artemis 2
Wednesday April 1st at 11:35pm Irish Time saw NASA’s crew of 3 men and 1 woman being launched on a 10 day mission to around the Moon, making them the humans who will be farthest from Earth in history.
They are scouting for landing sites for a Moon landing in 2028 to beat the Chinese who plan their manned landing in 2030.
Then NASA lands 2 crews a year until they have a permanent Moon Base by 2033. And from there they are going to Mars they said at 5 hours of media events last week, all led by the new NASA boss Jared Isaacman.
Big plans! And we will cover it all in the pages of Astronomy Ireland magazine so do sign up for the magazine and let us keep you posted, all for a euro a week courtesy of your national astronomy society, and the most popular astronomy society in the world.
Beginners Welcome. Always!
BEST WAY TO WATCH MISSION ONLINE!
To watch the launch of Artemis 2 live and 24/7 coverage until they splashdown in the Pacific 10 days later go to NASA’s official YouTube channel:
You can rewind this live feed up to 12 hours!
Playback at up to 2x speed!
Skip ahead/back 5 seconds or 10 seconds, and more!
Press “?” in YouTube to see all options.
This is a fantastic resource, and if you have a UHD television (4K as Americans call it) you can watch in Ultra High Definition!
PHOTOGRAPHED FROM IRELAND!
Our magazine Editor-in-chief David Moore managed to get a photo of Artemis 2 from Ireland when it was over 20,000 km from Earth! Photo will appear in next magazine along with all the coverage in a special souvenir issue:th all the coverage.